On Tue, 29 Dec 2015, Alexandre Rossi wrote: > Hi, > > >> The change done in unison 2.48 to overcome this looks pretty big... I'm > >> not sure I'll be able/willing to provide a unison2.40.102 any more. > >> Moreover, this package was created to provide compatibility with > >> previous Debian releases, but another change in OCaml 4.02 makes it > >> incompatible anyway (both communicating unisons need to be compiled with > >> the same version of OCaml in practice, which won't be the case any more > >> when one side is Debian stable, and the other Debian testing). IMHO, > >> that's a design flaw in Unison that cannot be easily fixed. > >> > > > > A possible way out for stable (and old-stable) users could be to use 2.48 > > from backports, when 2.48 will be packaged and migrated to testing. > > The backport is indeed a nice way out of this, the rebuild is > straightforward (only tried for amd64). > http://sousmonlit.zincube.net/~niol/apt/pool/main/u/unison/unison_2.48.3-1~bpo80+1.dsc > > This should be integrated in the backports.d.o repositories. Backports is not for fixing bugs in stable.
Alex - Backports ftpmaster
