Control: reassign -1 arcanist Hi!
On Fri, 2022-09-02 at 07:46:43 +0200, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: > Le 02/09/2022 à 01:10, Guillem Jover a écrit : > > So we have reached the point at which arc is getting autoremoved from > > testing as the RC is still filed against it too. :( > > > > Could some arcanist maintainer please check this, and ideally agree to > > reassign this bug to arcanist? If necessary I'm willing to prepare a > > patch for arcanist to stop installing as bin/arc, as described above, > > if this would expedite things. > However, as: > * phabricator is dying > * Richard, Christoph and myself didn't show a strong interest to keep > it alive (it is currently broken in unstable). > > Please do what you want. ;) Thanks! Much appreciated, I've reassigned it now with this mail! On Fri, 2022-09-02 at 12:12:06 +0200, Christoph Biedl wrote: > Sylvestre Ledru wrote... > > I don't think renaming is the right approach against an MS-DOS > > software (and I still think that Debian's policy is too binary for > > this). > > As there is a very small chance users would want to install *both* > packages, can't we just resolve this with a Breaks: on both sides, or > anything else that prevents co-installation from happening? See Adrian's reply. > Else I think for the various reasons it's indeed the arcanist package > that should move. Although I have concerns here since (arcanist's) arc > program is a command line tool and therefore users will have created > scripts around it. > About the policy - I think the idea behind it is right, and colliding > file names are a problem. Can you think of a better way to handle this? See my proposal on the previous mail, quoted here for convenience: > > On Wed, 2022-08-10 at 01:29:27 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > > Could you please rename the archanist /usr/bin/arc into > > > /usr/bin/arcanist? Or if that's not feasible, then stop installing the > > > symlink in PATH, and document that users might want to add the /usr/share > > > /arcanist/bin/ into their own PATH? Or do both? I think this would make the program match the package name, and at the same time make it possible for willing users to simply modify their pathname or add a symlink say under ~/bin/arc pointing to the actual program. I can take a stab at this (as gratitude :), and propose a patch during the weekend or something, if you want. Thanks, Guillem
