Updating and publishing the Debian OCaml Packaging Policy --------------------------------------------------------- To update the policy, simply run: make -C policy upload It will generate both html and txt versions and upload them to: http://pkg-ocaml-maint.alioth.debian.org/ -- Stéphane Glondu , Sat, 12 Aug 2023 10:24:58 +0200 ocaml-md5sums: the dependency hell ---------------------------------- ocaml-md5sums relationships with ocaml itself are kinda tricky. ocaml-md5sums needs _at runtime_ on ocaml as the latter ships `ocamlobjinfo` (note that other parts of dh-ocaml does not require ocaml at all, that's way the relationship is just a Recommends). ocaml needs _at build-time_ ocaml-md5sums to compute md5sums for the standard library. That's way ocaml Build-Depends on dh-ocaml, though in order to use ocaml-md5sums it overrides the default location of `ocamlobjinfo` in order to use the one just built. This also means that ocaml-md5sums can not be written in OCaml itself otherwise it would need to depend on some ocaml binary package creating a circular build or runtime dependency chain. At the time of writing, ocaml-md5sums is TEMPORARILY DISABLED, as it needs to be reimplemented in something else than OCaml. -- Stefano Zacchiroli Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:42:24 -0300