On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Pasi Lallinaho <email address hidden> wrote:
> If somebody wants to package a single theme separately (which might be
> up for discussion with the Shimmer packages as well), they are free to
> do so, but it's their responsibility to take care it's not in conflict
> with packages in the official repositories, eg. install in a different
> directory.
That's all fine I suppose, but my main concern is that a non-trivial
number of user will have issues upgrading to saucy because of this.
Numix is a fairly popular theme. A small part of the reason for this
popularity is that the upstream project has made it easy for Ubuntu
users to install via a PPA. AFAICT, shimmer-themes added Numix during
saucy's development. You make it sound as if people started packaging
it separately at some point after it was included in shimmer-themes,
while in reality it has been available as a standalone package for
sometime in the upstream's PPA. Normally, I agrees that it is a PPA's
owner's "responsibility to take care [their packages are] not in
conflict with packages in the official repositories," but it is also
the responsibility of the distro packager to work with the upstream.
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Pasi Lallinaho <email address hidden> wrote:
> If somebody wants to package a single theme separately (which might be
> up for discussion with the Shimmer packages as well), they are free to
> do so, but it's their responsibility to take care it's not in conflict
> with packages in the official repositories, eg. install in a different
> directory.
That's all fine I suppose, but my main concern is that a non-trivial
number of user will have issues upgrading to saucy because of this.
Numix is a fairly popular theme. A small part of the reason for this
popularity is that the upstream project has made it easy for Ubuntu
users to install via a PPA. AFAICT, shimmer-themes added Numix during
saucy's development. You make it sound as if people started packaging
it separately at some point after it was included in shimmer-themes,
while in reality it has been available as a standalone package for
sometime in the upstream's PPA. Normally, I agrees that it is a PPA's
owner's "responsibility to take care [their packages are] not in
conflict with packages in the official repositories," but it is also
the responsibility of the distro packager to work with the upstream.
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