Hi, Quoting Stéphane Glondu (2014-03-06 15:18:11) > Le 06/03/2014 14:57, Johannes Schauer a écrit : > > I dont remember from where I got the splitting into libocp-indent-lib-ocaml > > (with META and cma) and libocp-indent-lib-ocaml-dev (with all the rest) but > > now > > that I search for it I can see some packages which do it that way (for > > example > > libxen-ocaml or libatd-ocaml or libben-ocaml or libfindlib-ocaml). > > This practice appeared with Ocsigen dynamically loading many libraries > already (seperately) packaged in Debian, but is not yet documented in > policy :-( There is an open bug about it, though: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=500036
thanks! That increased my understanding a lot. :) Maybe it would help to have Lintian warn about these things? I'm currently working on making Lintian support build profiles so maybe when I'm done with that I could integrate some ocaml checks which would've avoided me making the mistakes I initially did: - warn if a dependency on ocaml lib is explicitly added even though dh_ocaml is used - warn if there is a cma without a cmxs in a runtime package - warn about any other combination of "X was installed but without Y" in dev packages > > Are you also saying that I do not need to create the two packages > > libocp-indent-lib-ocaml and libocp-indent-lib-ocaml-dev but that only > > libocp-indent-lib-ocaml-dev with all the files is enough? From reading [1] > > it seems that splitting it into a lib and a dev package is only advised if > > a shared library is involved which is not the case here. > > This is indeed what I'm saying. But keep in mind that if someone later > writes a plugin using libocp-indent-lib-ocaml-dev for a program not > using it, nor the OCaml toolchain, the second package might be needed. > > Whether you create the second package now or later, on demand, is up to > you :-) I see. I will leave them separate for now. I pushed my changes to git. I submitted my current patch to Makefile.simple to upstream [1]. Thanks a lot for the help :) cheers, josch [1] https://github.com/OCamlPro/ocp-indent/issues/124 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
