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

Christian Engwer christian.engwer at uni-muenster.de
Wed Jan 23 15:06:29 CET 2019


Hi,

As there are so many different packages with the name dune or something related, I'd rather suggest not too many any package "dune". For example the buildsystem could be called "ocaml-dune", whitedune already has a distinct name and DUNE might be called "libdune" or "dune-project"...

Christian

Am 23. Januar 2019 14:40:50 MEZ schrieb "Jö Fahlke" <jorrit at jorrit.de>:
>Hi Christian, Robert, Dominic, Steffen, Markus,
>
>not wanting to exclude anyone else, but if anyone has a different
>opinion on
>this matter I guess it would be one of you.  Do you see a reason not to
>let
>dune (an ocaml buildsystem) have the executable name "/usr/bin/dune"
>and
>package names such as "dune" and "libdune-ocaml-dev" in Debian?
>
>At least something along the lines of "busy right now, need more time",
>"I
>guess if you guys are OK with it it can't be too bad" or "don't care"
>would be
>good.
>
>See
>https://lists.dune-project.org/pipermail/dune-devel/2019-January/002419.html
>for our Discussion so far, and https://bugs.debian.org/919951 for the
>whole
>drama.
>
>Regards,
>Jö.




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