Bug#770947: unblock: mate-themes/1.9.2-1
Hi Jonathan,
----- Original message -----
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 01:42:41PM +0100, Mike Gabriel wrote:
> > Please unblock package mate-themes
> >
> > After (and also before) GTK 3.14 reached Debian testing, the MATE
> > upstream team worked under high pressure to provide a mate-themes
> > version that works together with GTK 3.14. In GTK theming you can only
> > provide a theme for _one_ GTK version. With the just-in-time upload of
> > GTK 3.14, the previous work on MATE theming for GTK 3.12 became
> > obsolete and everything had to be (rapidly) reworked to match
> > requirements of GTK 3.14.
> >
> > The upload of mate-themes 1.9.1-1 fixed several issues around GTK 3.14.
> > However, more bugs were discovered by upstream that now got fixed in
> > this release of mate-themes (1.9.2-1).
> >
> > Also the ContrastHighInverse theme got adapted to GTK 3 in this
> > release, which makes this upload an a11y improvement, as well.
>
> This hasn't made it to the list because of the diff (4M), so I'm replying
> to bring it into our sphere.
>
> I guess you didn't have much choice, but that is... well, huge. I don't
> know how good a job we can do of reviewing it :-/
I just received a second confirmation from the mate-themes upstream maintainer. The 1.9.2 release of mate-themes (gtk3.14 branch) is highly recommended to be preferred to the 1.9.1 version in Debian.
Thanks for taking your time on this one. I know, the package is very big and I must admit that I'd love to understand 25% of those theming engine details... (which I unfortunately don't...).
:-/
Mike
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