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Debian OCaml Task Force

A collaborative effort to maintain Debian packages related to the ["OCaml"] programming language

Infrastructure

Interacting with the team

  • Email contact: ?MailTo(debian-ocaml-maint@lists.debian.org)

  • Public IRC channel: #debian-ocaml on irc.debian.org (OFTC)

  • Joining: wanna join us? you are more than welcome! please send an introductory mail to our email contact above, and then request to join the Alioth Project using the legacy GForge mechanism

Usual roles

  • Stefano Zacchiroli (zack) is the alioth project admin, contributes/uploads team packages, takes care team-wide packaging tools and information pages,

  • Sylvain Le Gall (gildor) is an (old) member, contributes/uploads team packages,

  • Stéphane Glondu (glondu) contributes to team packages and team-wide packaging tools and information pages,

  • ...
  • add yourself here if you are a contributor of this team

All team members are listed in the developer info box on the [http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-ocaml-maint/ alioth project page].

Task description

The Debian OCaml Maintainers Task Force is up to package ["OCaml"]-related programs and libraries in Debian, to make as easy as possible the usage of such pieces of software.

Our usual activities include both routine packaging and maintenance of OCaml-related software and formalization in our policy of best practice for the OCaml packaging in Debian.

Get involved / future work

  • policy related [wiki:/Policy stuff]
  • OCaml backports coordination page: [wiki:/OCamlBackports OCamlBackports]
  • what about a [wiki:/CamlP4Misc camlp4-misc] package?

  • [http://upsilon.cc/~zack/stuff/ocaml-debian-deps.pdf essay] on OCaml link-time compatibility and Debian dependencies (titled: Enforcing OCaml link-time compatibility using Debian dependencies)

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More stuff

Resources

OCaml-related packages in Debian distribution are quite a lot, here you can find some resources to monitor them:

Policy

We wrote a [http://pkg-ocaml-maint.alioth.debian.org/ocaml_packaging_policy.html/index.html policy] establishing best practices for packaging OCaml-related software in Debian. It is available both in HTML and plain text formats. It can also be found in the [http://packages.debian.org/sid/ocaml-base-nox ocaml-base-nox] package [file:///usr/share/doc/ocaml-base-nox/ocaml_packaging_policy.html/index.html on your filesystem].

Version Control System

The best way to get in touch with our work is to have a look at our [http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-ocaml-maint/ SubVersioN repository]. The repository is organized as follows: