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. -- How to squander your resources: those silly Swedes have a sauce named "hovmästarsås", the best thing ever to put on cheese, yet they waste it solely on mere salmon.
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