Re: Upload and Orca
MENGUAL Jean-Philippe <mengualjeanphi@free.fr> writes:
> Hi,
>
> Joanie provided 3 important patches for Orca 3.12, which are all the
> more useful since Debian would not upload gnome 3.14 due to delay
> problems. These fixes, indeed, are not really related to gnome itself,
> but to Orca itself, in its working with other desktops or other apps.
>
> Because while Orca is related to gnome, noawadays, it is
> cross-desktop, i.e. it can make other DE accessible such as LXDE or
> MATE.
>
> Aware of the work to package GNOME, the schedule for freeze, the
> importance of the Joanie's patches in 3.12 (2 for libreoffice in
> testing, 1 for MATE), I propose to help the gnome-orca
> maintainers. Could you add debian-a11y ML to maintainers and Samuel
> Thibault as uploader (it seems agree). Doing this, as member of
> debian-a11y, I'll be able to propose applying the patches and updating
> Orca 3.12, then Samuel can upload and we can test quickly if they
> don't run anything in another place, and if they fix in Debian
> context. All that without increasing your work related to grobal
> GNOME.
>
> Do you agree? Do you prefer to apply patch and change these 2 fields
> before uploading, or change fields and let us deal with these 3
> patches?
I'd actually prefer for gnome-orca to do a stable point-release with
the patches included.
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