Hello all,
I am interested in taking ownership of the unison package [1]. The most recent discussion on this topic of which I'm aware is from 2018-05 [2], which was attempting to bring all of the various unison versions [3-5] packaged in Fedora into a single spec file. That never happened, and those packages were retired in 2020-09.
Since then, as of version 2.52 (2022-03), unison has become considerably more forward and backward version-compatible, not only between clients and servers of different unison versions but also when compiled with different OCaml compiler versions, as explained in the manual [6].
I have already done some test builds of this new package version on F38-F41 [7] and EPEL 9 [8] COPR and tested it on the latter. Debian stable already appears to have unison v2.52, and testing has v2.53, so this should also work well with Debian [9].
Thoughts?
Matthew
[1] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/unison [2] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/... [3] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/unison213 [4] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/unison227 [5] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/unison240 [6] https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison/blob/5f07978c23d113b3ec8dbbd59d00e1e163... [7] https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/mkrupcale/unison/build/7331891/ [8] https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/mkrupcale/rhel-9-unison/build/733223... [9] https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=unison