Unison in Fedora

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 01:03:58PM +0200, Miroslav Suchý wrote:
> Dne 7.5.2015 v 10:17 Richard W.M. Jones napsal(a):
> > For this reason, Fedora packages three different Unison branches in
> > separate packages:
> > 
> >  - unison213 (currently Unison 2.13.16)
> >  - unison227 (currently Unison 2.27.57)
> >  - unison240 (currently Unison 2.40.128)
> >  - There was a "unison" package, but it is retired
> > 
> > We don't package the latest upstream (Unison 2.48.3) at all[1].
> > 
> > For comparison, Debian packages:
> > 
> >  - unison2.27.57
> >  - unison2.32.52
> >  - unison (which contains 2.40.x)
> >  - unison-all, a meta-package, which pulls in all of the above
> > 
> > AFAICT Debian also does not package the latest upstream version.
> > 
> > So you can see that someone who needed to synchronize across Fedora
> > and Debian machines would have two compatible choices:
> > 
> >  - Fedora unison227 <-> Debian unison2.27.57
> >  - Fedora unison240 <-> Debian unison
> 
> BTW Do you talk to Debian maintainers and e.g. synchronize which next version you will be packaging so Linux word get
> matrix with more compatible versions available on servers?

I do know the Debian maintainers, since most OCaml users meet up once
a year, but I've not talked to them about this.

Rich.

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