Bug#325551: Two disjunct aleph projects cause filename clash in Debian
Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> writes:
> Package: tetex-bin
> Version: 3.0-6.0.sarge1
> Severity: important
>
> Hi developers of aleph (both of them), hi Debian package maintainers,
>
> since version 3.0 teTeX also provides aleph, a "multilingual variant" of
> the TeX typesetting system, developed by the aleph project at
> aleph@ntg.nl,
>
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=aleph
>
> Unfortunately, there exists a different aleph project, too:
>
> Description: The Aleph programming language - runtime
> Aleph is a multi-threaded functional programming language with dynamic
> symbol bindings that support the object oriented paradigm. Aleph has a
> rich set of features providing runtime compatibility with C++. The
> engine runs on both 32 bits and 64 bits platforms. It is designed to
> be portable across platforms.
>
> (I have tried to find a contact address for aleph upstream, but
> couldn't; the domain seems to be something very different meanwhile).
>
>
> Both programs provide the binary aleph, which means that currently they
> can hardly coexist. While it would certainly be possible to find a
> solution specific to Debian, I think both projects and their users
> benefit more if a we adopt a solution of general usefulness.
>
> What do you think?
Well the aleph (the language) project has been renamed to afnix, so as
soon as I have time to upload a new afnix package, the naming conflict
should disappear.
However, I also plan to put an aleph "upgrade" package depending on
afnix. I don't think this will cause any inconvenience to the tetex
people, because as far as I understand, aleph will be part of the
tetex-bin package. Tetex-bin will have to conflict with a version of
the aleph package though.
Phil.
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