Re: Accepted xfce4 4.20.1 (source) into unstable
Hi Yves-Alexis,
On 20/07/2025 11:39, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
On Sat, 2025-07-19 at 16:50 +0000, Debian FTP Masters wrote:
Closes: 1090384
Changes:
xfce4 (4.20.1) unstable; urgency=medium
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* d/control: update standards version to 4.7.2
* d/control: recommends mate-polkit (Closes: #1090384)
Hi Peter,
as you surely noticed, I added (only) mate-polkit as an xfce4 Recommends. This
change is targeted as a short one for Trixie but I'd be happy to revisit that
for Forky early in the release cycle.
I would of course prefer xfce-polkit | mate-polkit
or vice/versa which gives users an easy alternative
in the unlikely case of trouble.
If you're motivated about this, I think it would be interesting to:
- check with xfce-polkit upstream about the maintenance status, and maybe
offer them your help if needed.
Right now the official release is a bit behind master.
This does not really concern me too much as,
I'm tracking master via the watch file,
and picked up the pull request as a patch.
Sure, I could offer to help there, but the most likely response
(if any) would be to make my own fork. Anyway, neither option
would address your concern below.
- make sure xfce-polkit is acknowledged by and under the Xfce project umbrella
I raised it with them on the mailing list, but to be fair,
they don't have mate-polkit under their umbrella either!
If that happens, then I think it would make sense for you to join the Xfce
maintainers team and to move the xfce-polkit Debian package under the Xfce
maintainers team umbrella as well.
What do you think?
Regards,
Perhaps I can join the team anyway and help with other packages that I
use? Assuming of course that a "too many cooks" situation can be
avoided! Let me know after the release perhaps.
Regards.
Peter
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