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[Matthias Klose <doko@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 06.04.19 15:13, Paul Gevers wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On 06-04-2019 08:55, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>>> please don't NMU. In the past the atk patches broke the non-atk use case way too
>>> often.  Maybe you want to upload to a PPA or to experimental to give this a
>>> little bit more testing.
>>
>> Can we then at least upload all changes except enabling atk, i.e.
>> the attached patch which just fixes loading atk without enabling it
>> by default?  So that there is even no need for any external PPA or
>> experimental (which would be quite involved for people to configure),
>> instead people can just enable from the configuration file, as expected
>> and documented.
> 
> With my release team member hat on: we want accessibility enabled by
> default. We're late already, I would want this rather sooner than latter
> in buster, such that there is some real live testing before we release.
> Sure, there are chances for bugs, but if that's the case, let's find
> them and fix them.

I disagree.  I'll do the next upload with Samuel's proposed patches, not
enabling that by default, together with the planned security update.  Then
people can start testing if the wrapper works.

Enabling features during the freeze which were broken most of the time during
the development cycle sounds risky.  We don't have release goals anymore.

Matthias