It's not a random suffix. The change from polyml-svn to polyml-fixes-git incorporates two changes: firstly, naming the package more accurately (polyml-fixes rather than polyml) because this package tracks the "bug fixes to last release" upstream; secondly, switching to git rather than svn. A separate polyml-git package could track the "latest development version" upstream. These different packages represent a real choice by the user as to whether they want a stable or latest (possibly broken) version of polyml.

On 15 August 2015 at 02:49, <notify@aur.archlinux.org> wrote:

Request #3877 has been rejected by alucryd [1]:

This package should be merged into polyml-git, not one with a random
suffix.

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/alucryd/