See also ../OCamlTransitions

Deprecated or obsolete packages

camlp4
- it is deprecated in favour of menhir, sedlex, ppx stuff, ..., camlp5
- it is key because of lwt (optional)
- notable packages in transitive closure:
  - type-conv -> ocaml-data-notation -> oasis -> ocaml-fileutils -> lwt (fixed in unstable) -> ocaml-ctypes -> llvm-toolchain-7
  - cudf
  - haxe (fixed in unstable)
  - sks
  - lablgtk2 (see below)
  - ocamlnet
  - tyxml -> ben
  - coccinelle (no longer requires camlp4, being updated)
- the following packages may be removed because they are obsolete:
  - ocaml-estring -> ocaml-sqlexpr (dependency removed in newer upstream version)
  - optcomp -> eliom (not in testing), ocaml-deriving-ocsigen
  - ocaml-text -> lwt (dependency removed in unstable)
deprecated packages by Jane Street:
- js-build-tools -> bin-prot, fieldslib, ppx-core, ppx-driver, ppx-optcomp, ppx-sexp-conv, ppx-type-conv, sexplib310, variantslib
- ppx-driver -> ppx-type-conv
- ppx-type-conv -> ppx-sexp-conv
- ppx-core -> ppx-driver, ppx-optcomp, ppx-sexp-conv, ppx-type-conv
- type-conv -> obus, ocaml-data-notation, ocaml-deriving-ocsigen, typerep
lablgtk2
- it is deprecated in favour of lablgtk3
- it is key because of lwt (optional)
- notable packages in transitive closure:
  - coq
  - unison
  - ocaml-cairo2, which is a build-dependency of lablgtk3!

New packages

caml-mode (ITP by Ralf Treinen, in NEW)
ocaml-stdio (needed by postgresql-ocaml >= 4.1.0) (ITP by StephaneGlondu, in NEW)
lwt-log (needed by obus >= 1.2.0)
ppxlib (needed by obus >= 1.2.0, needs ocaml-stdio) (ITP by StephaneGlondu, waiting for NEW)
ocaml-topkg (needed by react >= 1.2.1) (ITP by StephaneGlondu, in NEW)

Release management

OCaml transition tracker
Suggested binNMUs by nomeata
Packages waiting to migrate together: _obus _ocaml-sqlexpr _ocaml-usb _zeroinstall-injector alt-ergo approx belenios ben biniou botch camlbz2 camlp4 camomile cryptokit cudf dose3 extlib findlib frama-c headache lambda-term lwt mikmatch morbig morsmall nproc oasis ocaml-atd ocaml-bitstring ocaml-csv ocaml-data-notation ocaml-deriving-ocsigen ocaml-estring ocaml-gettext ocaml-http ocaml-lastfm ocaml-re ocaml-ssl ocaml-text ocaml-visitors ocaml-zarith ocamlbricks ocamldap ocamlnet ocamlrss ocamlviz ocp-indent ocurl optcomp pa-ounit pgocaml ppx-deriving ppx-deriving-yojson pxp type-conv tyxml ulex utop why3 xmlrpc-light yojson zed
- Blockers: ocamlnet (too young until 2019-08-17), #934872

Blocked packages

Waiting for lwt and others to migrate to testing:

lablgtk2 2.18.8+dfsg-1
coq 8.9.0-2
camomile 1.0.2-2
ocaml-migrate-parsetree 1.4.0-1
caml2html 1.4.4-2
camlp5 7.08-2
ocamlify 0.0.2-6
oasis 0.4.11-1
ocaml-gettext 0.3.7-4
ocaml-libvirt 0.6.1.4-3
ocaml-ctypes 0.15.1-1 (+ enable tests when lwt is updated)
ppx-derivers 1.2.1-1

Waiting for ocaml-stdio to pass NEW:

postgresql-ocaml 4.5.0-1
ppxlib 0.8.1-1 (+ enable tests when ocaml is updated)

Blockers for ocaml >= 4.08:

Waiting for ocaml >= 4.08:

ocaml-num 1.2-2
camlp4 4.08+1-1
ocaml-re 1.9.0-1
labltk 8.06.6+dfsg-1
parmap 1.0~rc10-2
ppx-tools 5.3+4.08.0-1

New versions

ppx-deriving 4.2.1-3 -> 4.4
ppx-tools-versioned 5.2.1-2 -> 5.2.2
lwt 2.7.1 -> (2.7.1 without camlp4 and ocaml-fileutils) -> 3.3.0 -> 4.1.0
ocaml-sqlite3 4.0.5 -> 4.1.3
react 1.2.0-3 -> 1.2.1 (needs ocaml-topkg)

liquidsoap 1.3.7-1

Ralf Treinen

lablgtk3 3.0~beta6 (in NEW)