[Caml-list] Call for help: identify corrupted bytecode packages on Ubuntu Hardy

[David MENTRE]

Hello,

I discovered the some OCaml bytecodes were silently corrupted in Ubuntu
Hardy (and Gutsy)[1]. The source of corruption, the package
pkg-create-dbgsym, is now fixed in current Hardy. The package ocamlnet
which was corrupted has been properly rebuilt and now works.

However, other packages might also be corrupted.

Right now, I have identified the following packages:
* cameleon

* dag2html

* ocsigen

* omake (not sure)

* polygen-data (not sure)

A rebuilt has been asked here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pkg-create-dbgsym/+bug/197293

But I might have skipt some of the corrupted packages (I don't know the
expected behavior of all packages). So, if you have access to Ubuntu
Hardy, could you test your favorite OCaml package and report any issue
to me or at the above Ubuntu bug.

Yours,
d.

Footnotes:
[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ocamlnet/+bug/180364

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[Alexis Ballier]

Hi,

> But I might have skipt some of the corrupted packages (I don't know
> the expected behavior of all packages). So, if you have access to
> Ubuntu Hardy, could you test your favorite OCaml package and report
> any issue to me or at the above Ubuntu bug.

Unless I'm mistaken, you could grep your build logs for binaries
compiled with the '-custom' option of ocamlc. As far as I know these
are the ones sensible to stripping and the others should be fine. That
way you will probably have a more complete list than if you rely on
people spotting the problems.

Regards,

Alexis.

[David MENTRE]

Hello Alexis,

Alexis Ballier <abal...@gentoo.org> writes:

> Unless I'm mistaken, you could grep your build logs for binaries
> compiled with the '-custom' option of ocamlc.

I don't compile Ubuntu packages myself but this is a good
suggestion. I'll try to find the build logs and look for this pattern.

Yours,
d.

[David MENTRE]

David MENTRE <dme...@linux-france.org> writes:

> Alexis Ballier <abal...@gentoo.org> writes:
>
>> Unless I'm mistaken, you could grep your build logs for binaries
>> compiled with the '-custom' option of ocamlc.
>
> I don't compile Ubuntu packages myself but this is a good
> suggestion. I'll try to find the build logs and look for this pattern.

Ok, for the record, the build logs for a source package like "ocaml-ao"
of Ubuntu Hardy can be found at URL:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/hardy/+source/ocaml-ao/+builds

And yes, it helps me find other packages that might have the issue.