preview of OCaml batteries included Debian packages

OCaml
batteries included is a wonderful community-driven
initiative to standardize the OCaml development platform. It is
similar to initiatives sharing the same motto, like Haskell
batteries included and Python batteries included
(which then has become the legacy Python distribution), but I have
always felt that OCaml was more desperately needing a similar
initiative.

David
Teller and the OCaml batteries included team have been the
first actually doing something to address the frustration of many
otherwise enthusiastic OCaml developers.

A couple of days ago, their efforts have given birth to a first
milestone: the
release of the first alpha version of batteries included.

To help out, I've released as quickly as possible the
Debian packages of OCaml batteries included. You can find
them in experimental
(actually in NEW, at the time of
writing), and from my
people.d.o space.

I've only built the packages for amd64, if
you need some other architecture you can build on it by yourself,
but I recommend not trying to rebuild the
-doc package (which takes 10 minutes on my laptop to
build). You can reuse the -doc package I've built,
which is arch: all, to rebuild only the
-dev part unpack the source package and do
fakeroot debian/rules binary-arch.