Re: Small fix in Orca packaging

[Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de>]

Control: retitle -1 make Orca work with MATE DE
Control: tag -1 patch
Control: severity -1 important

Hi Joanmarie, dear Debian Accessibility team,

tagging this bug as important as it currently is discussed what  
default desktop environment Debian jessie should be shipped with...

On  Fr 15 Aug 2014 14:50:16 CEST, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:

> On 08/15/2014 08:12 AM, Mike Gabriel wrote:
> > Hi Jean-Philippe,
> >
> > On  Fr 15 Aug 2014 12:05:29 CEST, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Given that MATE can install without orca, I thought it was easier if
> > > Orca could ship this. But indeed, we could create a mate-orca sackage.
> > > But does it worth for such little difference? I can help to do it,
> > > anyway if you tell me it's really the best solution. What's the
> > > process to introduce such package (beyond making the package, I mean,
> > > administratively speaking)?
> > >
> > >
> > > Regards,
> >
> > I would add it as one more binary package to the MATE desktop
> > environment meta package
>
> Do what you will. I admittedly know absolutely nothing about package
> maintainership nor of Debian. But for what it's worth: I think what you
> might wish to consider instead of a symbolic link as your temporary
> "fix" is script mapping -- done in the one and only Orca package Debian
> maintains. See this patch [1] which I already committed to Orca master
> because a different downstream pointed out upstream that marco, at least
> at the moment, is pretty much still metacity but calling itself
> something else. The solution is verified already by that downstream
> reporter [2].
>
> --joanie (Orca Project Lead)
>
> [1] https://git.gnome.org/browse/orca/commit/?id=409ebbc2
> [2] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/orca-list/2014-August/msg00201.html

@Joanmarie: thanks a lot for your upstream feedback!

I guess, this patch [1] then should make it into the orca Debian package...

[1] https://git.gnome.org/browse/orca/commit/?id=409ebbc2

Mike
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