[Dune-devel] Request about the /usr/bin/dune filename

[Jö Fahlke]

Am Mo, 21. Jan 2019, 15:10:18 +0000 schrieb Jeremie Dimino:
> I am the original author of the dune build system [1] for the OCaml
> language. I'm writing to you as we are having trouble getting our
> software accepted in Debian. Indeed, it has been suggested that the
> "dune" package name and "/usr/bin/dune" filename should be reserved
> for your Dune project which is already in Debian, in case you would
> like to use these names in the future.

This sound like there has been some previous discussion somewhere (e.g. Debian
mailinglists or bugtracker).  Any chance you can point us to such discussion?

Also, Debian buster just went into freeze, so am I assuming correctly this is
not urgent at this point in time (our Debian connection is kind-of busy at the
moment as far as I know, but his input would certainly be valuable...)

Regards,
Jö.

> This is problematic as our
> build system has become the most used build system in the OCaml
> community over the past two years.
>
> Given that our software is a command line tool, the name of the tool
> is extremely important to us. So I was wondering if it would be an
> issue for you if we used the "dune" package name and the
> "?usr/bin/dune" filename?
> 
> I look forward to hearing from you,
> Jeremie Dimino

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