On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 17:54:42 +0000, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > Two questions: > - Did you try the debian-hppa list whether there are hppa porters > willing to work on this? When dealing with arch-specific issues, they > should at least be informed so that they can make a choice between > dropping support in this way for ocaml, or fixing the support where > the package maintainers and upstream are unable and/or unwilling to do > so.
I didn't do that, because I thought that having this deb removed was necessary for ocaml to go in etch, and because ocaml was keeping kde out of etch. I'll do so now, if you think that's necessary. > - What to do with packages like slat and confluence, that seem to fail > to build for hppa with this package removed? I think they should be > transitioned to alternatives, or otherwise also for those packages, > the hppa support should be dropped. This should happen at the same > time in any case, I do not intend to whack-a-mole multiple times in > the future for reverse-(build)-dependendencies of this package. > I don't think these packages should build-depend on ocaml-native-compilers. The ocaml-nox package provides compilers on all debian architectures, and should be used instead IMO. The compilation speed increase provided by the native compilers is probably not necessary. (As a side note, I don't understand why slat build-depends on ocaml at all.) Cheers, Julien Cristau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
