Quoting Marcell Meszaros <marcell.meszaros@runbox.eu> (snt: 2024-03-23 07:22 +0100 CET) (rcv: 2024-03-23 07:22 +0100 CET):
On 17 March 2024 14:30:01 GMT+01:00, notify@aur.archlinux.org wrote:
MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for ocamlnet [2]:
Broken for close to 1 year due to not being compatible with repo's ocaml 5, first published in May 2023.
Upstream seems to be abandoned (developer only attends to their other projects).
There has been a work-in-progress, partially viable port to ocaml 5, contributed to upstream in the form of a merge request 1.5 years ago, but it has been abandoned and ignored since. [a]
That unfinished patch does not make this buildable. Also, now the code does not support the current gnutls, needed for https support in this library.
Downstream dependents have either moved on to other solutions, or got discontinued 3+ years ago. (All AUR reverse dependencies have been submitted for deletion.)
I think it's best to delete this package.
[a]: https://gitlab.com/gerdstolpmann/lib- ocamlnet3/-/merge_requests/21
[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/ocamlnet/
The last package change is ill-conceived. The build stays broken.
A package cannot depend on both 'ocaml' (v5) and 'ocaml4', as they conflict with each other. Still not useful to keep this library that is EOL for 3+ years.
I asked the author of ocamlnet, if it was planned to update it for OCaml5. The answer was yes. So far there is no time plan for that, but next week I may habe more information.