Bug#325551: Two disjunct aleph projects cause filename clash in Debian

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> wrote:

>> 
>> 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.

I hoped something like this, since the homepage disappeared and
information was so sparse.

> 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.

Yes, we'll do that.  Which version will the upgrade package have?

Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer