Control: found 919953 1.0~beta20-1
Control: severity 919953 important
On Sun, 20 Jan 2019 22:19:01 + Ian Jackson
wrote:
> According to Debian policy file conflicts should be resolved by no-one
> using the conflicting name. This applies to /usr/bin/dune.
>
> Additionally, the only referent of `dune' that anyone has heard of
> (eg, wikipedia) is a C++ library which we have in Debian as
> `src:dune-commmon', `libdune*-dev', etc.
>
> It is evident from actions taken in response to #916468 that the you
> (the maintainers of what is current `src:dune') do not agree.
>
> Instead, it seems to me that you ahead and took the name despite a
> fairly clear consensus in debian-devel that you shouldn't. I don't
> think you should have done that.
>
> I am escalating this to the Technical Commitee in another bug. In the
> meantime this bug needs to be open to keep this out of testing.
That TC bug got closed without the need for a resolution from the TC.
Hence, I don't consider this bug to qualify as RC anymore. (I personally
wouldn't mind if the *package* dune got renamed, but we shouldn't do
that before the buster release.)
Paul
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