Bug#777437: mate-desktop-environment-core: Please release mate 1.9.x releases to experimental

[Mike Gabriel]

Control: tag -1 wontfix
Control: close -1

Hi Adrian, hi Shirish,

On  So 08 Feb 2015 11:06:26 CET, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:

> On 02/08/2015 08:25 AM, shirish शिरीष wrote:
>> As we are right now in freeze, it would be nice if we could get the
>> 1.9.x release in Experimental so we can see what changes have been
>> done in the new release and see if some of the issues reported have
>> been fixed.
>
> I don't think this is going to happen. Packaging Mate is very tedious
> and time-consuming and can't just happen over night. There isn't really
> any value in spending so much time and effort into packaging a
> development release.
>
> We might upload some individual packages from 1.9.x to experimental
> though in case there are some notable exceptions where an update
> to a development version makes sense. Otherwise, I don't think
> this is going to fly.
>
> Adrian

Well spoken, Adrian. Thanks. Tagging as wontfix and closing (with some  
more info below).

The uneven MATE upstream release have to be considered development  
releases. We won't package them for Debian, unless there are good  
reasons for it (e.g. with mate-themes).

The current state of the discussion (mainly between me and Martin  
Wimpress (Ubuntu MATE)) is that we start with uploading MATE 1.10  
(which is the upcoming stable MATE release) to Debian experimental

  (1) after the Debian jessie freeze and
  (2) after Ubuntu 15.04 has been released and
  (3) and, of course, after the MATE upstream team has finally  
released 1.10 (which is overdue, I guess)

Saying that, MATE 1.10 will be pushed to experimental as staging area  
(because uploading / adapting all those packages requires time). Once  
all packages have entered experimental and look good, we will  
re-upload the complete stack to Debian unstable (targetting jessie+1  
and Ubuntu 15.10). Before jessie+1 will be out, I guess we will have  
arrived at MATE 1.12 by that time.

Greets,
Mike


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