Re: Contacting the Ocaml maintainers

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On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 10:12:52PM +0200, Dan Horák wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 21:01:16 +0100
> "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 09:17:16PM +0200, Dan Horák wrote:
> > > On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 21:11:50 +0200
> > > Florian Weimer <fw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > What is the recommended way to contact the Ocaml maintainers?
> > > > 
> > > > There is a systematic packaging bug which introduces unusable i686
> > > > packages into the x86_64 compose, and despite repeated messages to
> > > > ocaml-devel, I did not receive a response:
> > > > 
> > > > <https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ocaml-devel/2014-July/002265.html>
> > 
> > This list is dead AFAIK.  I certainly haven't read it in many years,
> > and we've been trying to delete it (without success, it seems).
> > 
> > > hm, Richard (rwmjones) is usually very responsive ...
> > > 
> > > I think the solution for the i686 ocaml devel files is to update the
> > > multilib policy in mash to exclude ocaml-* completely
> > 
> > As Dan says, multilib is inappropriate for OCaml.  There's never any
> > reason why you would want to use 32 bit OCaml packages if you have a
> > 64 bit machine.  So simply blocking i686 on x86-64 is the way to go.
> > 
> > There is even a bug about it, but I cannot find it in BZ right now.
> 
> patch for mash sent as
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/buildsys/2014-August/004357.html

Thanks.  Although obviously I'm not able to test that particular
patch, it does look like the right fix.

Rich.

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