Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
(I've added a few opam devs to CC)
On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 10:14:41PM +0200, Miro HronĨok wrote:
> opam orphan 1
weeks ago
I didn't notice that opam had been orphaned. This package is the tool
used for source packaging of OCaml packages under $HOME
(
https://opam.ocaml.org/).
I don't especially like language-specific tools for managing packages,
because of the usual problems that have been widely discussed elsewhere
and it's not profitable to rehash them again. This is my personal view.
The question is if we want to keep this in Fedora or not? ie. As an
official Fedora package versus something that opam maintainers would
provide themselves as a download.
Thanks for the heads-up - this very week I've wanted to see what could be done
to get opam into EPEL, so discovering it's orphaned in Fedora is a bit of a blow!
We'd be happy to take on its maintenance. IIUC it needs to be readopted by August
when F35 is branched, or does an orphaned package get dropped earlier than that?
FWIW, the aim from the OCaml Community perspective is that opam is installed and
maintained by the OS's native package manager, so we'd obviously prefer it to
stay
that way.
David