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. -- Andrew Starr-Bochicchio Ubuntu Developer <https://launchpad.net/~andrewsomething> Debian Developer <http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=asb> PGP/GPG Key ID: D53FDCB1 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1226200 Title: Install/upgrade failure when numix-gtk-theme PPA package present To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shimmer-themes/+bug/1226200/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
