On Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 02:19:36AM -0000, Matthew Krupcale wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am interested in taking ownership of the unison package [1]. The
> most recent discussion on this topic of which I'm aware is from
> 2018-05 [2], which was attempting to bring all of the various unison
> versions [3-5] packaged in Fedora into a single spec file. That
> never happened, and those packages were retired in 2020-09.

This is the latest email I think:

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DIGCQ5ON6DAGUJVHIS3RDRU3C6QGXIFM/

But yes, looks like you've got most of the important references
already.

If you do re-add Unison, please let me & Jerry James know because
we'll have to add it to the list of OCaml packages that get rebuilt
whenever OCaml is updated.

> Since then, as of version 2.52 (2022-03), unison has become
> considerably more forward and backward version-compatible, not only
> between clients and servers of different unison versions but also
> when compiled with different OCaml compiler versions, as explained
> in the manual [6].

About time!

Rich.

> I have already done some test builds of this new package version on F38-F41 
> [7] and EPEL 9 [8] COPR and tested it on the latter. Debian stable already 
> appears to have unison v2.52, and testing has v2.53, so this should also work 
> well with Debian [9].
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Matthew
> 
> [1] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/unison
> [2] 
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/RBOQEJY4QHNPDUTUU7GCNVJLNEH6JYKN/#RBOQEJY4QHNPDUTUU7GCNVJLNEH6JYKN
> [3] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/unison213
> [4] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/unison227
> [5] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/unison240
> [6] 
> https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison/blob/5f07978c23d113b3ec8dbbd59d00e1e1632823f6/doc/unison-manual.tex#L215
> [7] https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/mkrupcale/unison/build/7331891/
> [8] 
> https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/mkrupcale/rhel-9-unison/build/7332237/
> [9] https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=unison
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