[opam-devel] deprecating opam 1.2.0

[Anil Madhavapeddy]

CCing Stephane Glondu -- would it be possible to request a backport of 1.2.2 to Debian Stable?  It's the last major distro distributing the older version of OPAM, and it's an increasingly difficult maintenance burden for us.

regards,
Anil

> On 7 Jul 2016, at 07:50, Sylvain Le Gall <sylvain+ocaml at le-gall.net> wrote:
> 
> opam 1.2.0 is the version distributed with Debian Jessie (current stable)
> https://packages.debian.org/jessie/opam
> 
> Deprecating it, will prevent Debian Stable users to use the "easy to install" package.
> 
> Le mer. 6 juil. 2016 à 10:29, Thomas Gazagnaire <thomas at gazagnaire.org> a écrit :
> I think it is time to deprecate opam 1.2.0. What do you think?
> 
> See https://github.com/ocaml/opam-repository/pull/6888 for a recent issue: it doesn’t understand the `pinned` variable. This could be fixed by adding a rewriting layer between 1.2.2 and 1.2.0 and adding a redirection based on the version number (we already do that for opam 1.1) but that’s a lot of efforts for not much gains. So I’m in favour of simply not supporting 1.2.0 anymore.
> 
> If you are still using 1.2.0 please complain now :-)
> 
> Thomas
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