[aur-general] removal of pidgin-gtalkinvisible

Oon-Ee Ng ngoonee.talk at gmail.com
Fri Jun 17 03:00:08 EDT 2011


On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Ray Rashif <schiv at archlinux.org> wrote:
> On 17 June 2011 10:34, Thomas Dziedzic <gostrc at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 7:45 PM, Martti Kühne <mysatyre at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> please delete pidgin-gtalkinvisible [1], I'm the maintainer and
>>> announced deprecation in favor of pidgin-gtalk-shared-status [2] a
>>> month ago.
>>>
>>> cheers! mar77i
>>>
>>> [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=30136
>>> [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=48997
>>>
>>
>> terminated
>
> Hey Martti and everyone
>
> We see that Ng had uploaded the same thing before:
> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=38551
> And this is Martti's new upload: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=48997
>
> 1. pidgin-gtalksharedstatus
> 2. pidgin-gtalk-shared-status
>
> Usually the new one would not be honoured, but Ng, do you think you
> would want to rename your package? I think a better name is following
> the $client-$protocol-$addon format which neither does, i.e
> 'pidgin-gtalk-sharedstatus'.
>
> Otherwise, if the name is not important, we'll have to remove Martti's
> version of the package.
>
Actually, after some consideration his naming is more appropriate,
since that's the name of the source tarball is gtalk-shared-status. I
would like my package renamed to that name, though I would not object
to deleting my package and leaving his one, as long as he can maintain
it.


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