META files

[Jerry James]

I would like to draw attention to this issue:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1982933

It appears that some META files, at least, need to be in the main
package, not in -devel.  We've been inconsistent about this.  Some
OCaml packages have META in the main package, and some in -devel.

I also see that the latest ocaml-lablgtk3 build failed to build
documentation correctly because it looked for
%{_libdir}/ocaml/ocamldoc/META and failed to find it.  Does the main
ocaml package build generate a META file for ocamldoc?

Regards,
--
Jerry James
http://www.jamezone.org/

[Jerry James]

On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 8:57 AM Jerry James  wrote:
> It appears that some META files, at least, need to be in the main
> package, not in -devel.  We've been inconsistent about this.  Some
> OCaml packages have META in the main package, and some in -devel.

I think I have tracked down all of the ocaml-*-devel packages with
META files.  Would anybody object if I make changes in git to move
those to the corresponding main packages, then let the mass rebuild
take care of the rest?

[Dan Čermák]

Hi Jerry,

Jerry James  writes:
> On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 8:57 AM Jerry James  wrote:
> > It appears that some META files, at least, need to be in the main
> > package, not in -devel.  We've been inconsistent about this.  Some
> > OCaml packages have META in the main package, and some in -devel.
>
> I think I have tracked down all of the ocaml-*-devel packages with
> META files.  Would anybody object if I make changes in git to move
> those to the corresponding main packages, then let the mass rebuild
> take care of the rest?

Not at all, please do so at your convenience.

Thanks!

Dan

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 03:31:47PM -0600, Jerry James wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 8:57 AM Jerry James  wrote:
> > It appears that some META files, at least, need to be in the main
> > package, not in -devel.  We've been inconsistent about this.  Some
> > OCaml packages have META in the main package, and some in -devel.
>
> I think I have tracked down all of the ocaml-*-devel packages with
> META files.  Would anybody object if I make changes in git to move
> those to the corresponding main packages, then let the mass rebuild
> take care of the rest?

Yes it sounds like a good idea, thanks for taking care of it.  (I see
some changes are happening already)

Rich.

[Jerry James]

On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 3:56 PM Richard W.M. Jones  wrote:
> Yes it sounds like a good idea, thanks for taking care of it.  (I see
> some changes are happening already)

I think I've made all of the necessary changes now.  If I broke
anything, let me know and I'll fix it.

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 04:08:44PM -0600, Jerry James wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 3:56 PM Richard W.M. Jones  wrote:
> > Yes it sounds like a good idea, thanks for taking care of it.  (I see
> > some changes are happening already)
>
> I think I've made all of the necessary changes now.  If I broke
> anything, let me know and I'll fix it.

I'm expecting the new OCaml to come along soon which will mean a full
rebuild:

https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/ocaml-4-13-0-second-alpha-release/8164
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1893381

Rich.

[Jerry James]

On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 1:26 AM Richard W.M. Jones  wrote:
> I'm expecting the new OCaml to come along soon which will mean a full
> rebuild:
>
> https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/ocaml-4-13-0-second-alpha-release/8164
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1893381

I already know of a few version updates that will be needed for 4.13 support:
- ocaml-migrate-parsetree 2.2.0
- ocaml-ppxlib 0.22.2
- ocaml-ppx-optcomp 0.14.2

When the time comes, let me know and I'll push those changes to git.
I haven't done so already because each of those updates changes the
ocaml(Foo) = xxxx hashes, therefore requiring rebuilds of all
consumers.