ocaml-ocamlnet @3.7.3_0: update available to 3.7.6

[piotr@…]

The build fails because of an illegal sequence of characters in src/netstring/netencoding.mli on line 123

The following patch fixes the issue:

--- src/netstring/netencoding.mli.orig  2014-09-19 19:57:18.000000000 -0700
+++ src/netstring/netencoding.mli       2014-09-19 19:57:42.000000000 -0700
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@
         * to ensure that all output lines have a length <= 76 bytes.
         *
         * Note unsafe characters:
-        *   As recommended by RFC 2045, the characters [!#$\@[]^`{|}~]
+        *   As recommended by RFC 2045, the characters [!#$\@[]^`{}~]|
         *   and the double quotes
         *   are additionally represented as hex tokens.
         *   Furthermore, the letter 'F' is considered as unsafe if it

[piotr@…]

Cc Me!

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Is this problem already known to the developers of ocaml-ocamlnet? If not, please report it to them.

[piotr@…]

There is no need to inform the maintainers. The version in macports is outdated. In the upstream version is 3.7.6 and the affected line is as follows:

As recommended by RFC 2045, the characters [!#$\@[]^`|{}~]

So it is not affected by this particular bug. We can either apply the proposed patch or consider updating to the current version of ocamlnet.

[piotr@…]

3 months later and the package is still not compiling even though a fix is avalable. Is there a reason why?

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

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