On Sat, Jun 07, 2025 at 09:25:47AM -0600, Jerry James wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 7, 2025 at 8:45 AM Richard W.M. Jones <rjo...@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 06, 2025 at 02:52:06PM -0500, maxwell--- via devel-announce
> > wrote:
> > > ocaml-odoc defolos, orphan 1
> > > weeks ago
> >
> > I thought this one might be used by more packages, but I think the
> > only dependency chain is ocaml-odoc -> ocaml-sedlex -> haxe.
>
> It isn't even used there. The usage in ocaml-sedlex is conditioned on
> "%if %{with docs}" and higher up you'll see "%bcond docs 0".
>
> > I think we removed the dependency from lots of packages in the past.
> > For example (taken at random):
>
> That is correct; no Fedora packages depend on ocaml-odoc anymore.
>
> > I'm not sure if odoc is still used somehow implicitly that I'm not
> > understanding, or did we just get rid of the documentation?
> > (I actually favour the latter, package documentation generated from
> > source files like this isn't usually very useful, and adds little
> > value over simply looking at the *.mli files.)
>
> Right, we no longer generate documentation for packages that require
> ocaml-odoc. We do still generate documentation for a few packages
> that use ocaml-ocamldoc to do so.
Understood! So I guess we can just let this one fall out of Fedora,
unless someone (defolos maybe) wishes to become the owner.
I always think it's a bit weird that we count packages as orphaned
when there are still maintainers ...
Rich.
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