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

[Stéphane Glondu]

Le 31/01/2019 à 12:34, Jö Fahlke a écrit :
> Alright, pending Robert Klöfkorns opinion, I'm gonna attempt a draft
> statement.  We should get our move on, since Debian will stop accepting new
> packages 2019-02-12[1], and renaming a package counts as a new package if I'm
> not mistaken.

Right. But they are saying "no new package in testing for the next
stable (Buster)", and to be in testing, a package has to go through the
NEW queue (unpredictable amount of time), then unstable for at least 2
days (if we mark it as high priority), then testing.

> [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2019/01/msg00008.html
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> 1. Dune (numerics) does not see a good enough reason to stop dune (ocaml)
>    taking the /usr/bin/dune filename.
> 
> 2. Dune (numerics) does not see a problem in dune (ocaml) using "dune" or
>    "libdune" in package names, as long as "ocaml" also appears in the package
>    name.
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This is nice. It would be wonderful if the Debian Technical Committee
agrees with this statement (once it's official). I'm putting them in CC
(via Debian bug #919951).

> @Stéphane Glondu: Renaming the package was offered by Anil Madhavapeddy here:
> https://lists.dune-project.org/pipermail/dune-devel/2019-January/002432.html
> As the (visible) maintainer of Dune (ocaml) in Debian, do you consider this
> feasible?  Please let us know if not.

It is possible in the long term. Note that reverse dependencies would
also need to be changed. I don't know for Buster, though. At this stage,
we would need approval from the release team (maybe a TC decision would
help).


Regards,

-- 
Stéphane