On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Pasi Lallinaho p...@shimmerproject.org 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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