On 24 Aug 2013 07:23, "William Gathoye" <william@gathoye.be> wrote:
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Hi guys,
Could elementary-icons-bzr be merged into elementary-icon-theme-bzr to be in sync with elementary-icon-theme from [community] ?
Merged, thx.
Let me join the discussion here, as I'm concerned by this merge.
I've installed the elementary-icons-bzr package a few days ago from the AUR repository. After the merge to elementary-icon-theme-bzr occurred, with the current AUR implementation, the AUR helpers like yaourt cannot intercept a warning from the AUR stating that the package name has changed.
It's a good thing I've subscribed to this mailing list and I'm reading all messages that transit via my mailbox. Without this subscription, I wouldn't have been aware of that name change and my package would remain installed and become outdated with time.
Am I doing something wrong? How to prevent that to happen? Is there a tool to circumvent this AUR implementation problem?
It's not an implementation problem, it's a usage problem. If you subscribe to notifications from the package you'd receive a notification. Good aur tools can always alert you if the package is no longer found. Ask their developers. The aur is not supposed to be used as just another repository (like how yaourt and Co pretend it is), more manual intervention is needed.