Bug#775271: my unblock request for mate-themes 1.9.3-1

[Mike Gabriel]

Dear Ivo,

On  So 08 Feb 2015 23:24:52 CET, Ivo De Decker wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 08, 2015 at 07:15:59PM +0100, Mike Gabriel wrote:
>> Dear release time,
>
>> I am curious how we / the release team shall/will handle #775271. I have not
>> received any notice on my unblock request for mate-themes 1.9.3-1 so far.
>>
>> Did processing it slip through? I (and the MATE pkg team) would be happy to
>> receive some feedback on our request, if possible. Thanks!!!
>>
>> My local jessie notebook has been running with that new mate-themes version
>> for a while now and I would love to have other Debian users benefit from the
>> GTK3 improvements made in that version of mate-themes (esp. the CSD relevant
>> parts).
>
> As we are very late in the freeze, it's really to late to add these kinds of
> changes. If you have targeted fixes for concrete bugs, we might be able to
> consider them.

 From a policy point of view, I clearly understand your position. From  
a technical point of view, we really need an exception here (and  
possibly a third opinion?).

Would it really make a difference presenting you a stack of more than  
appx. 15-20 patches (and relating bugs) providing the fixes that 1.9.3  
of mate-themes introduces [1]? This new mate-themes version is a must  
for the MATE that currently is in Debian jessie.

Please note that 1.9.3 has been an upstream maintenance release  
targetting Debian jessie. The fact that Debian received GTK3.14 last  
minute before the freeze (and the not always continuous availability  
of volunteers' working power) caused the delay here.

Otherwise, we will have to provide CSD and popover support (and that  
means a fully working MATE theming for GTK3 applications) via  
jessie-backports or an external .deb archive (which would be quite  
suboptimal).

Thanks for your time!
Mike

[1]  
https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-themes/commits/mate-themes-gtk3.14-1.9.3?page=1
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