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Add x-maintenance-intent to your opam files #1879

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hannesm opened this issue Jan 7, 2025 · 1 comment
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Add x-maintenance-intent to your opam files #1879

hannesm opened this issue Jan 7, 2025 · 1 comment

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@hannesm
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hannesm commented Jan 7, 2025

Dear Madam or Sir,

due to the opam repository archival process, we are keen to have the maintainers of packages specify their intention. We noticed that merlin has a lot of releases, and are curious what your maintenance intention is.

You can read up on the policy at https://github.com/ocaml/opam-repository/blob/master/governance/policies/archiving.md and the x-maintenance-intent field at https://github.com/ocaml/opam-repository/blob/master/governance/policies/archiving.md#specification-of-the-x--fields-used-in-the-archiving-process

Thanks a lot for taking this into consideration. Please note that adding x-maintenance-intent in the latest release is sufficient (please feel free to PR such a field directly to the opam-repository).

Also note that if there exists a package that is to be retained in opam-repository, and this depends on a specific merlin version (not part of the maintenance-intent), this merlin version is kept -- so we don't end up in uninstallable packages.

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voodoos commented Jan 8, 2025

Hello @hannesm,

We maintain the latest releases of Merlin for the two last releases of the compiler and 4.14.
For example, the currently maintained versions are v4.18-414, v5.3-502 and v5.3-503.

I think that would translate into this value:
x-maintenance-intent: ["v(latest)-414" "v(latest)-(latest)" "v(latest)-(latest-1)"]

Does that feels right to you ? (I mean, is that the expected syntax ?)

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