post about the ocaml transition

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+# Debian testing transitions: OCaml 3.10.1 ... and 3.10.2!
+
+The shape of *OCaml 3.10.1* in Debian wrt the
+[testing](http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/) *transition* is getting
+better.  As you can see from the [OCaml status page in
+Debian](http://pkg-ocaml-maint.alioth.debian.org/debian-ocaml-status.html) we
+are almost there.
+
+This has been the first OCaml transition (almost) entirely done with
+[binNMU](http://wiki.debian.org/binNMU)s. [We
+requested](http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2008/02/msg00209.html) about
+*100 binNMUs*, with the corresponding dep-waits, and the buildds did the fine
+exercise. Since binNMUs do not rebuild arch:all packages, some remaining bits
+had to be uploaded by hand, I've finished that fine exercise last Sunday. In 5
+days from now or so the wait time for that bits should be over and OCaml 3.10.1
+should happily transition to testing.
+
+The binNMUs requests, as well as the dep-waits, have been *generated
+mechanically* using [a
+script](http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-ocaml-maint/trunk/tools/gen-binNMU-request/gen-binNMU-request.py?op=file&rev=0&sc=0)
+contributed by Stephane Glondu, exploiting the build-dependencies information
+[we already had](http://pkg-ocaml-maint.alioth.debian.org/ocaml_build_deps.dot).
+A small bug in the various involved scripts let a missing dep-wait slip through
+and we had to re-request builds for [[debpkg ocamlnet]], but beside that all
+went fine ... it will go even better next time (now that the bugs has been
+fixed).
+
+... and speaking about the *next time* :-), [OCaml 3.10.2 has been
+released](http://groups.google.com/group/fa.caml/msg/d873d5f21a391db5) a few
+days ago (what a timing, eh?). Yesterday I've *uploaded it to experimental*, you
+can get if from there to test if everything is fine with it. As soon as the
+current transition is over we can right ahead requests the new binNMUs and hope
+to have *3.10.2 in Lenny*.
+
+[[tag lang/english planet/debian debian ocaml]]