Bug#779340: unblock (pre-approval): marco/1.8.2+dfsg1-5

[Ivo De Decker <ivodd@debian.org>]

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Hi,

On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 01:05:17PM +0100, Mike Gabriel wrote:
> Please consider unblocking planned upload of package marco.
> 
> Due to a conceptual change in the Gsettings backend subscription handling
> in glib 2.43, the MATE upstream team stumbled over several code flaws in
> the Gsettings implemenation of MATE. The Debian MATE Packaging Team,
> together with the Ubuntu MATE team, would love to see these code flaws
> fixed in Debian jessie, although Debian jessie ships an older version of
> glib and is not directly affected by these flaws at the moment.
> 
> In MATE, several components erroneously read from Gsettings before they
> are actually connected to their signals. With the change [1] in glib,
> this leads to situations, where changes of certain desktop settings do
> not get propagated to the running application (Gsettings notifications
> fail). The user needs to logout and login to see changes on desktop
> components take effect.
> 
> These problems
> 
>   o will hit Debian, once glib 2.43 gets uploaded
>   o hit derivatives of Debian that ship glib 2.43, currently
>     Ubuntu MATE 15.04
> 
> Indepent from those code flaws being invisible in Debian jessie or not,
> the actual code passages in affected MATE components are technically
> wrong and should be prophylactically fixed in Debian. This will also
> greatly ease the team cooperation with Ubuntu MATE (from where we receive
> a great deal of input and impact).

So you are asking unblocks for issues that don't affect jessie at all? If
that's the case, this change is not appropriate at this point of the freeze,
sorry.

Cheers,

Ivo