On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 08:35 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > Since I don't know any OCaml and this package probably needs to > > combine 3 versions and label multiple binaries, I shouldn't > > volunteer to build this as my first package. But I'd be happy to do > > some manual builds and share notes if that would be useful. > > There was a reason for splitting it in the first place which is to do > with (in-)compatibility between the versions. Because the protocol > sometimes changes incompatibly between releases and because we want to > interoperate with servers which may be running different versions, we > need to package up the different versionse separately. However this > is a big pain to maintain, not least because whenever a new > incompatible version comes along we have to apply for a new Unison > package to be added to Fedora(!) > > It's probably going to be better to do something with multiple source > files in a single 'unison' package building multiple sub-packages. > > Anyhow if you want to co-maintain it, please check the boxes at > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/list/unison* FWIW, I'm in this mess too, but I was lazy and decided to just hack up the spec to build the version I need locally rather than do anything to 'properly' fix up the packages. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
