Re: MATE Desktop Environment in Debian

[Mehdi Dogguy <mehdi@dogguy.org>]

On 08/02/12 09:55, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le mercredi 08 février 2012 à 00:53 +0100, Stefano Karapetsas a écrit
> :
> > Many users are using it well. Now that this is enough stable, I
> > begun the process for ask the inclusion in Debian. The first
> > package is mate-common.
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=658783 (ITP)
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2012/02/msg00115.html (RFS)
> > With this mail I wish to have opinions and suggestions about our
> > work from Debian Developers.
>
> MATE introduces a lot of code duplication, which is considered bad
> in Debian, and is based on obsolete technologies - not just GTK2,
> which will of course remain for a long time, but also things like
> Bonobo which very few people really understand, and which are the
> cause of a lot of not-well-understood bugs.

Maybe this could benefit to both parties if MATE team tries to reduce
usage of obsolete libraries to a bare minimum, and avoid using bug
monsters (like Bonobo and others). I guess this means a lot of work, but
that's the price to pay to ease its maintainability on the long term and
having it packaged within Debian. Did MATE team consider such a plan? If
yes, what was the outcome of the discussion?

Regards,

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Mehdi