OCaml Packaging wiki page

[Jerry James]

I'm reviewing a submission of an ocaml program.  The spec file has
this at the top:

%global _use_internal_dependency_generator 0
%global __find_requires /usr/lib/rpm/ocaml-find-requires.sh
%global __find_provides /usr/lib/rpm/ocaml-find-provides.sh

as required by https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:OCaml#Requires_and_provides.
 But it seems that those lines are not only unnecessary, but
detrimental.  Taking them off generates the same Requires/Provides
(due to /usr/lib/rpm/fileattrs/ocaml.attr), plus additional ones.  In
the case of the package I'm reviewing, it's innocuous.  But I have an
ocaml package that I maintain where the extra Requires/Provides
generated by omitting those lines appear to be significant.

Is the wiki correct?  Are those lines still needed for some reason?
Or is the wiki out of date?

[Jerry James]

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Jerry James  wrote:
> I'm reviewing a submission of an ocaml program.  The spec file has
> this at the top:
>
> %global _use_internal_dependency_generator 0
> %global __find_requires /usr/lib/rpm/ocaml-find-requires.sh
> %global __find_provides /usr/lib/rpm/ocaml-find-provides.sh
>
> as required by https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:OCaml#Requires_and_provides.
>  But it seems that those lines are not only unnecessary, but
> detrimental.  Taking them off generates the same Requires/Provides
> (due to /usr/lib/rpm/fileattrs/ocaml.attr), plus additional ones.  In
> the case of the package I'm reviewing, it's innocuous.  But I have an
> ocaml package that I maintain where the extra Requires/Provides
> generated by omitting those lines appear to be significant.
>
> Is the wiki correct?  Are those lines still needed for some reason?
> Or is the wiki out of date?

Anybody?  Anybody?  Bueller?

[Jerry James]

On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Jerry James  wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Jerry James  wrote:
> > I'm reviewing a submission of an ocaml program.  The spec file has
> > this at the top:
> >
> > %global _use_internal_dependency_generator 0
> > %global __find_requires /usr/lib/rpm/ocaml-find-requires.sh
> > %global __find_provides /usr/lib/rpm/ocaml-find-provides.sh
> >
> > as required by https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:OCaml#Requires_and_provides.
> >  But it seems that those lines are not only unnecessary, but
> > detrimental.  Taking them off generates the same Requires/Provides
> > (due to /usr/lib/rpm/fileattrs/ocaml.attr), plus additional ones.  In
> > the case of the package I'm reviewing, it's innocuous.  But I have an
> > ocaml package that I maintain where the extra Requires/Provides
> > generated by omitting those lines appear to be significant.
> >
> > Is the wiki correct?  Are those lines still needed for some reason?
> > Or is the wiki out of date?
>
> Anybody?  Anybody?  Bueller?

Is anybody actually reading this mailing list, or am I just talking to myself?

[Scott Tsai]

On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 15:08:49 -0700, Jerry James wrote:
> Is anybody actually reading this mailing list, or am I just talking to
> myself?

The vast majority of traffic on this list in the past year seems to be 
from automatic mail forwarding. Mailing the Fedora OCaml packagers 
directly may not be a bad idea.