Bug#774677: unblock (pre-approval): mate-terminal/1.8.1+dfsg1-4

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

Control: tags -1 confirmed moreinfo

Hi,

On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 05:31:27AM +0100, Mike Gabriel wrote:
> Please consider unblocking planned upload of package mate-terminal.
> 
> This upload fixes how mate-terminal is used as xterm
> (x-terminal-emulator) alternative:

>   * debian/control:
>     + Make mate-terminal "Multi-Arch: foreign". (Closes: #774182).
> 
> -> On amd64 platforms, the above fix allows mate-terminal to be
> co-installed with applications that are available for i386 only and that
> depend on x-terminal emulator.

This change is not appropriate during the freeze.

>   * debian/mate-terminal.{postinst,prerm):
>     + Use mate-terminal.wrapper (instead of mater-terminal binary directly) as
>       alternative for x-terminal-emulator. (Closes: #773431).
> 
> -> Before this upload we erroneously used the mate-terminal executable
> directly as xterm alternative. However, mate-terminal directly does not
> provide the correct set of cmdline options. The mate-terminal.wrapper
> script has been written for this purpose specifically and we should have
> used it in the first place, but did not...

This one is OK.

Please go ahead with the fix for #773431, and remove the moreinfo tag from
this bug once the upload is in unstable.

Cheers,

Ivo