Re: Bug#389163: How to handle filename conflict "aleph" (Packages aleph, tetex-bin, texlive-bin)?

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:

> On Sam, 16 Dez 2006, Frank Küster wrote:
>> > THis name change is currently under discussion in the tex-live
>> > (upstream) mailing list with the original authors participating. As soon
>> > as we have come to a conclusion there it will be executed in Debian.
>> 
>> Sorry, aren't the texlive people talking about mex?  I always thought
>> that it was settled that aleph "belongs" to the TeX community, and the
>> programming language is "afnix"?
>
> Damned, you are right, I mixed this. So we have
> 	aleph(texlive-omega,tetex-bin) vs. aleph(aleph)
> and
> 	mex(texlive-lang-polish) vs. mex(octave)

No, we don't have any problems (for etch):

- aleph has been removed and will probably be reintroduced as afnix

- octave uses /usr/bin/mex2.1

We should, however, contact the octave people about the possible
conflict, perhaps with a wishlist bug "Please don't use /usr/bin/mex". 

Regards, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)