[opam-devel] [ocaml-platform] opam 1.1.1 to be released shortly

[Anil Madhavapeddy]

[dropping platform@ from CC]

On 10 Jan 2014, at 17:44, Roberto Di Cosmo <roberto at dicosmo.org> wrote:

> - check the patch added by Ralf in the latest version of the
>   Debian aspcud package to ensure backwards compatibility of
>   the optimization criteria supported by the latest aspcud
>   with the legacy criteria supported by the other solvers...
>   this basically boils down to adding a few lines to the 
>   aspcud bash shell to use a short sed file and convert the
>   old criteria in the new language supported by the latest
>   aspcud... you'll find attached the modified aspcud and the
>   sed file from the Debian package

This makes maintaining the port on other platforms really tough,
since we have to keep looking at both upstream and the Debian
packages.  Are these patches not suitable to be fed upstream into
one patched tarball that could be installed by the various package
managers?

-anil