Frank Lichtenheld wrote (in #495431): > Hmm, isn't that like a reversal of d1a22f3e1a9503f401e517dcf38ebe44c3d4cce3 ? > [...]
Not exactly...
> - join (' | ', map { "$_-3.10.0" }
> - qw/ocaml-base-nox ocaml-base ocaml-nox ocaml/)
> - ],
> + 'ocaml-base-nox | ocaml-base | ocaml-nox | ocaml' ],
My patch checks whether there is ocaml-...-version for some version,
which is the dependency usually found in binary packages needing
ocamlrun. The reversal of the patch above would check only for a
specific OCaml version (the 3.10.0 one).
By the way, the bug #476417 happened during an OCaml migration (3.10.1
-> 3.10.2). These periods are the only ones when two versions of OCaml
coexist, and are meant to be very short (ideally < 1 month). In testing,
there is always a single version of OCaml. A tighter check for Lintian
would be to look for ocaml-...-`ocamlc -version`.
The output of `ocamlc -version` is the same as `apt-cache show ocaml|sed
-nr 's/^Version: ([^-]+).*$/\1/p'` (the latter needn't ocaml installed).
This can be used for an even better patch IMHO (probably trivial to
implement for perl gurus, so I let them do so). But keep in mind that
Lintian would complain more during OCaml migrations.
This information can be useful to readers of bug #476417, so I also
CC'ed it.
Cheers,
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Stéphane Glondu
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