Bug#836669: Mate developers blame Debian

[Frank McCormick]

I filed basiclally this same bug at the GIT site for mate.


This was their reply:


This is with Caja 1.14 as shipped b Debian? That version is not
compatable with GTK 3.21.5. Debian updated GNOME to version
3.21.91, which pulls in GTK 3.21.5 but did not update MATE, in
which Caja and mate-settings-daemon must also be updated to
developmeent versions in order to work.

The segfaults are caused by the "information" sidebar
which was fixed with 1.15.0, and the desktop redraw issue was fixed
in 1.15.4, the current development version.

Many GTK errors have been stopped in Caja git master, also since
GTK 3.20 a LOT of programs not just from MATE have spewed
warnings.

For now you have two options to get MATE working until 1.16 ships
and Debian picks it up: roll back GTK3 to version 3,.20 (which will
force uninstallation of GNOME) or use these two packages offered
at
https://archive.org/details/DebianPackagesForMate-desktopWityGtk3AndCustomPanelTheme

https://archive.org/download/DebianPackagesForMate-desktopWityGtk3AndCustomPanelTheme/caja-gtk3.22_1.15.4-11uke1_amd64.deb
https://archive.org/download/DebianPackagesForMate-desktopWityGtk3AndCustomPanelTheme/mate-settings-daemon-gtk3.22_1.15.1git20160804-1luke1_amd64.deb

Those links are good now, if the packages are superseded the links will 
break but
the newer replacements will be at the same website and these packages 
will move
to the "older versions" directory there.
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@raveit65
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raveit65 commented 9 hours ago • edited
Mate debian Maintainers have decided not to use 1.15 packages from us, 
so file out a bug against debian bug reporting system an wake up those 
guys..
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