[aur-general] wwt-svn and wit-svn

[Xyne]

On 2010-09-09 18:49 +0300 (36:4)
Evangelos Foutras wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Antonio Lucas <antonioluccas at gmail.com> wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > wwt-svn[1] and wit-svn[2] are the same package. Both maintainers are active,
> > and both packages get the latest version from svn of this package (even the
> > packages containing a version on them).
> > what do you guys do in this situations?
> >
> >
> > <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37504>[1]
> > http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=34239
> > [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37504
> >
> > abracos
> > Antonio Lucas
> 
> I'm not sure which package should go; wit-svn has a more correct name,
> but wwt-svn was uploaded first and has more votes.
> 
> I'm CC'ing the respective maintainers so they can decide which package
> we should keep. :]

The correct name should always take precedence in my opinion, regardless of the
number of votes or upload date. It provides a more consistent system.

In this case I would recommend that the original uploader be allowed to adopt
the correctly named package.