The aleph package, long orphaned, is no longer maintained upstream (the last release was three years ago). It is exhibiting a namespace collision; it installs /usr/bin/aleph, and TeX also wants to install that. As a result, there is a Conflict between TeX and aleph, but even so, the release criteria for etch require that the rule against namespace conflicts be enforced.
There are nearly no users of aleph according to popcon. Moreover, upstream has morphed the language into a new thing, called AFNIX. There is an ITP for AFNIX out there, and the packager is using it as a place to learn about packaging more complex packages. There is no rush for him to finish his work. It seems to me that we should, therefore, simply drop aleph entirely. If there are no objections, I'll file a request with the ftpmasters accordingly. Thomas
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