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/ -- Mehdi Dogguy Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:40:00 +0100 dh-ocaml: support for building OCaml-related Debian packages ------------------------------------------------------------ The stuff contained in this package used to be spread among various binary packages generated by the "ocaml" source package. In particular: - the policy used to be shipped by ocaml-base-nox - ocaml-md5sums used to be shipped by ocaml-base-nox - dh_ocaml used to be shipped by ocaml-nox - the CDBS class ocaml.mk used to be shipped by ocaml-nox If you need the CDBS class to build your OCaml-related packages you will now need to Build-Depends on dh-ocaml. -- Stefano Zacchiroli Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:57:36 -0300 ocaml-md5sums: the dependency hell ---------------------------------- ocaml-md5sums relationships with ocaml itself are kinda tricky. ocaml-md5sums needs _at runtime_ on ocaml-nox as the latter ships `ocamlobjinfo` (note that other parts of dh-ocaml does not require ocaml-nox 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