Re: [Caml-list] Warning: Ubuntu 11.04 Vs OCaml 3.12.0

["Stéphane Glondu" <steph@glondu.net>]

Le 03/05/2011 23:59, Gerd Stolpmann a écrit :
> Well, Ubuntu is another case, as we all know that Ubuntu does not care
> about the quality of their ocaml packages.
> [...]
> Debian is in the lucky situation that they provide both the environment
> for ocaml and ocaml. So yes, they can fix the problems they created in
> their own environment :-) - Ubuntu is already a different story, they
> provide binary packages without any QA process.
> [...]
> Regarding Ubuntu, maybe we should ask them to remove their ocaml
> packages from their distribution as long as they do not do QA.

You sound like ocaml-related packages are totally broken in Ubuntu,
which is not true. They probably do more QA than GODI, even on
ocaml-related packages (e.g. frequent recompilations with new versions
of toolchain, early bug reporting when something breaks). But as you
pointed out, they have complete control over their OS... it would be
more difficult to do that for GODI. Sure, Ubuntu doesn't have a
dedicated ocaml maintainer, and copy their packages directly from Debian
and they should work most of the time (actually, I've never heard of
breakages that were specific to Ubuntu).

BTW, the ocaml package shipped by Ubuntu 11.04 has been fixed (it's
still version 3.11.2, though). The original mail of this thread was
about an ocaml compiled from sources.


Cheers,

-- 
Stéphane