On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 10:21:43PM +0000, Jon Dowland wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 01:26:50PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 11:22:52AM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > > I'd therefore like to ask if anyone here would be willing to help me
> > > to get MATE into Debian for Jessie.
>
> If there was a git repo to check out I'd be happy to test packages and do
> some mild work, but not as a main commitment.
You can use the upstream packaging, available at:
deb http://packages.mate-desktop.org/repo/debian wheezy main
I'm testing this at work for several months already (since the freeze;
unlike home, I have no time for unnecessary transitions). And I'm very
positively surprised: usually when you have unofficial apt sources, the
quality is typically low -- or worse. Problems I noticed so far are:
* no migration of Gnome2 settings
* wheezy's remmina interacts really badly with screen locking (both
mate-screensaver and gnome[3]-screensaver): the screen will fail to lock,
yet the moment you switch out of remmina, there is a fade out and lock
that can't be aborted
* by default you have two evinces, which tends to confuse people who don't
know what's going on. ("evince" and "atril" are both pulled in, and use
the same user-visible names).
And that's basically it. I did not notice other regressions: remaining
badness was already there in squeeze's Gnome2, and some annoying bugs have
been fixed by MATE guys since then.
So from an _user_'s point of view, John Paul could just upload everything
as-is and it'd be in a better shape than Gnome3 or XFCE already. I don't
know about packaging internals here so I can't offer this kind of help,
though.
--
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"hovmästarsås", the best thing ever to put on cheese, yet they waste it
solely on mere salmon.
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