[Bug 1396851] Re: [needs-packaging] Add package containing Unity Greeter badges

[Graham Inggs]

Hi Doug

> One solution, which would keep these badges both out of the
> unity-greeter package and out of the various desktop packages,
> would be to package the badges available at [3] together
> in a single package. I am an experienced Debian maintainer and
> plan to create such a package soon.

This is a great idea and thanks for doing this.  Would you consider
carrying custom_mwm_badge.png from the Motif Window Manager
(mwm) package built from the motif source package in Debian?

I will have a look at your package and am able to advocate it, but
you'll need one more MOTU to advocate it as well [1].
As it states on that page, submitting packages is the preferred
path and seeing you are a Debian Maintainer, it may be
quickest too.

Regards
Graham

[1]
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/NewPackages#Going_through_MOTU

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Title:
  [needs-packaging] Add package containing Unity Greeter badges

Status in unity-greeter package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  Currently, only a small number of potential desktops have badges
  shipped with Unity Greeter.  Other desktops are supposed to ship their
  own [1].  However, some desktop packagers would prefer not to do this.
  For example, the MATE packagers would prefer to keep the packages the
  same in Debian and Ubuntu, and therefore would like to avoid an
  Ubuntu-specific patch like adding a Unity Greeter badge [2].

  One solution, which would keep these badges both out of the unity-
  greeter package and out of the various desktop packages, would be to
  package the badges available at [3] together in a single package.  I
  am an experienced Debian maintainer and plan to create such a package
  soon.

  [1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2012-February/034800.html
  [2] https://code.launchpad.net/~profzoom/ubuntu/vivid/mate-session-manager/mate-session-manager-fix-1393010/+merge/241874
  [3] http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/?content=158764

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