Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Package: tetex-bin > Version: 3.0-6.0.sarge1 > Severity: important > > Hi developers of aleph (both of them), hi Debian package maintainers, > > since version 3.0 teTeX also provides aleph, a "multilingual variant" of > the TeX typesetting system, developed by the aleph project at > [EMAIL PROTECTED], > > http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=aleph > > Unfortunately, there exists a different aleph project, too: > > Description: The Aleph programming language - runtime > Aleph is a multi-threaded functional programming language with dynamic > symbol bindings that support the object oriented paradigm. Aleph has a > rich set of features providing runtime compatibility with C++. The > engine runs on both 32 bits and 64 bits platforms. It is designed to > be portable across platforms. > > (I have tried to find a contact address for aleph upstream, but > couldn't; the domain seems to be something very different meanwhile). > > > 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. 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. Phil.
