arla Debian package

[Christoph Martin]

Erik Bågfors <bagfors at pdc.kth.se> writes:

> > The main problem is not to create the binary packages (arla & xfs.o) (some
> > minor changes are made to the arla source). The problem is building the
> > arla source package and making the xfs-module compile with whatever kernel
> > is installed. This is an area where my lack of skill is total, since I
> > seldom use the kernel-source packages in debian at all.
> > 
> > Apart from this, there are some points where arla will not comply with
> > debian standards (Gregory Stark has listed some of them in one of the
> > files in the old arla package (eg. the "fs" command is a two-letter
> > command)).
> 
> So is "ls" :)
> 

We had the same discussion with mf (TeX's metafont) and argued that it
had this name for a long time and so it went into debian without a
problem and also into the exclude list of lintian (the debian policy
checker).

The same holds for fs in arla, because this command comes from AFS and
it would be very inconvenient to have a different name for this
command just in debian. So I think the command names should all stay
as they are.

Christoph

PS. I am looking forward to a Debian arla package. I am using arla
0.24 since I build my own arla binaries.

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