Unison (was: Re: Milmeister Mass-Orphaning Request)

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 10:14:22PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 19:00 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:29:09PM -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> > > >>>>> "RWMJ" == Richard W M Jones <rjones at redhat.com> writes:
> > > 
> > > RWMJ> I will take ocaml* and unison*.
> > > 
> > > I have orphaned them; feel free to take ownership.
> > 
> > Done, thanks.
> 
> what do you plan to do with unison, and its incompatibility quirkiness?
> (I just ask because at present I have to use a private build because
> Mandriva moved on to a newer stable release, so I have to run that on my
> Fedora systems to remain interoperable).

Yes, it's a big mess.  I don't think maintaining separate *packages*
for each version / protocol level is in any way scalable.  Can we fold
all the versions into a single package, if necessary carrying and
building several source tarballs?

Rich.

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