[aur-general] About several svn2git package....

[郑文辉(Techlive Zheng)]

在 2012年2月19日 下午5:52，Alireza Savand <alireza.savand at gmail.com> 写道：
> Now it seems logical, so if they provides same pkg name on the system,
> yes these pkgs names have to change in the proper way
>
>
> 2012/2/19 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) <techlivezheng at gmail.com>
>
>> 在 2012年2月19日 上午5:56，Alireza Savand <alireza.savand at gmail.com> 写道：
>> > The projects names are same to the aur pkg's names, it's better
>> > to mention the diffrents in PKGBUILD's pkgdesc, not to change the aur
>> names!
>> >
>> > 2012/2/19 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) <techlivezheng at gmail.com>
>> >
>> >> 2012/2/19 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) <techlivezheng at gmail.com>:
>> >> > In AUR, there are two svn2git packages, [svn2git][1] and
>> >> [svn2git-git][2].
>> >> >
>> >> > At first, I thought that the later one is the git version of the
>> >> > first,then it turns out that they are to different packages.
>> >> >
>> >> > The first one is Kevin Menard's ruby version, accturally a ruby gem.
>> >> > Here is the project page: https://github.com/nirvdrum/svn2git
>> >> >
>> >> > The second one is Thomas Zander's c version svn2git, hosted on
>> >> > http://gitorious.org. Here is the project page:
>> >> > http://gitorious.org/svn2git/svn2git
>> >> >
>> >> > I can't tell the deference between them, but I think it is better one
>> >> > of them changed to an other name. Condering the first one is an ruby
>> >> > gem package, so if it is better to change it to ruby-nirvdrum-svn2git
>> >> > or nirvdrum-svn2git in which nirvdrum-svn2git is the gem name.
>> >> >
>> >> > I am not sure about this, so I post here to ask you guys' opinion.
>> >>
>> >> Sorry, forgot the link.
>> >>
>> >> [1]:https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=55337
>> >> [2]:http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37209
>> >>
>>
>> There may be a confuse.
>>
>> https://github.com/nirvdrum/svn2git can be package as svn2git and
>> svn2git-git, http://gitorious.org/svn2git/svn2git also can be package
>> as svn2git and svn2git-git.There will be conflict.
>>
>> As I mentioned, https://github.com/nirvdrum/svn2git is a ruby gem
>> package, according to [Arch Ruby Gem Package
>> Guildlines](
>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ruby_Gem_Package_Guidelines),
>> the name can be set to ruby-svn2git and ruby-svn2git-git, this way,
>> there will be no confusion and conflict.
>>
>> One can have them both installed on a same machine.
>>

I will try to contact the maintainer about this.