HEADSUP: Packages with obsolete dependencies

Andrew Schulman schulman.andrew@epamail.epa.gov
Mon Dec 28 09:47:00 GMT 2009


> This is a list of packages which depend on obsolete library versions. 
> Some of these libraries have serious bugs (e.g. libncurses7 is not 
> rebaseable).

Thanks, I'll update orpie.

ocaml is unmaintained ATM.  I took a shot at packaging it and it's a significant
PITA.  The Makefile doesn't support DESTDIR, and the location of the main ocaml
executable, wherever you installed it for packaging purposes, gets statically
baked into all bytecode executables.



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