On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 4:48 AM, Eli Schwartz via aur-requests < aur-requests@archlinux.org> wrote:

On 03/24/2018 09:20 PM, Stelios Tsampas via aur-requests wrote:

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On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 4:10 AM, notify--- via aur-requests mailto:aur-requests@archlinux.org> wrote:

Eschwartz [1] filed a deletion request for arc-gtk-theme-git [2]:

duplicate of gtk-theme-arc-git

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/Eschwartz/ https://aur.archlinux.org/account/Eschwartz/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/arc-gtk-theme-git/ https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/arc-gtk-theme-git/

gtk-theme-arc-git should be deleted, arc-gtk-theme-git follows the naming of the package in community

1) I dislike the naming schema NicoHood used in [community] and IMHO he should change it. It strikes me as terribly unintuitive.

2) The naming schema of the package in community is irrelevant, as this is not the package in community and you are not allowed to submit duplicate packages to the AUR and then attempt to browbeat the maintainer of the original package into giving up his package.

If you would like to politely *request* that he rename his package, and agree to respect his choice, then I will respect his decision (which does imply that it is his decision).

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It may be my personal opinion that things should be gtk-theme-foo and that foo-gtk-theme is "wrong", but I'm not going to enforce my opinion on others as it is sort of a bikeshed.

I will pretty aggressively enforce my disapproval of the cavalier attitude taken in uploading and re-uploading arc-gtk-theme-git.

There were duplicate packages. The older package takes precedence. The newer package is very firmly a duplicate, and should not continue to be re-uploaded in contravention of its initial deletion. That just smacks of disrespecting the administrative decisions that have *already been declared*.

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I'm rather pissed off, and tremendously so, that someone pressured him into orphaning his package. I'm also deeply confused, what on earth is even going on here?

The new maintainer then proceeded to abuse his new maintenance of gtk-theme-arc-git by breaking the pkgver and using some terrible abomination, then hiding this in amongst a bunch of trivial style changes.

This does not impress me with his *capabilities* as an AUR maintainer, so why should I trust his opinions on the naming any more?

-- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User

By mistake I sent the email from a different address than one I use in AUR, I am sorry for the confusion that it may have cause I am involved with neither of those packages, I am just pointing out that there is a naming schema, good or bad, in community and I made my suggestion on that. If there is a history between those packages, I wasn't aware of it, and if your decision is based on that, I respect it and don't have a say in the matter.