Comment 7 for bug 120527

Thanks for outlining the problem hggdh.

A bit of background from the submitter's angle;
1) If the submitter wants to check if a package has been submitted already, then they will use the name of the package as they know it - not some name they imagine somebody else gave to it.
So the original name is very useful to keep.
But it can be added to - tough concatenation should be avoided.

So a name like Sage math, Sage (math), is probably OK.

2) When a submission gets marked duplicate or for any other reason gets taken off the user's list of submissions, without their notice, or without their consent , it is like having an "avaricious moderator" on one's own "notes to one's self" website.
If a user is not in control of their own list (book keeping), then they will get lost.
it took me a while to figure out (in the early stages) that some submissions that I "thought" I'd made, but were removed from view (by somebody else), were viewable elsewhere. But until I found that things were going missing due to the actions of others, I resubmitted some of them, because I thought I had forgotten to in the first place (because they would be viewable - or so I thought).
This was an un-necessary Re-duplication of effort.

So let the site admins do what they want, but try to have a system that doesn't shunt stuff out of view for the user.
Now when I can't find stuff,I go to advanced search and tick everything on the left side (because I do not know for what reason an item has gone missing).

Maybe let the user set their default view, so they can all the submissions they have ever made. The advanced search is then used more for "sorting" to show less than total, rather than "revealing" what was hidden from view.

Its all very well having a multitudinous means of accessing ie;
 - search for all bugs you submitted, any stati;
 - search for all bugs you are related to, any stati;
 - click on the link provided on this bug (top right area, under the heading 'Duplicates';
 - and others.

but none of these are the way the user used to access it before, it's status got altered.

3) If two programs have the same name, then do not be prejudice as to which one gets renamed - rename both.
So Sage for OpenGL could be named Sage openGL, or Sage (openGL).

The problems discussed here are much more general than this package request.
So could you please feed this information back to the sys admins, so the problems are not repeated for other users.

i hope the thoughts here are helpful.
Thank you.