Hello, I've backported most of the Xfce 4.14 packages to debian buster(uploaded to debian.mentors: https://mentors.debian.net/packages/uploader/valdaer%40gmail.com), had been using these for more than a couple of days and these have been working very well so far. I've seen on reddit and some other forums that some debian users would want to use Xfce 4.14 on debian stable so maybe it is worth to upload these to debian-backports. I could track these packages for newer versions in backports and maybe in future I could help in packaging/maintenance of Xfce debian packages.
I have some knowledge in debian packaging, I have my small private repo and I've been backporting and packaging some packages(some from Xfce too) over the past few years. These debian.mentors uploaded packages (https://mentors.debian.net/packages/uploader/valdaer%40gmail.com) were built by gbp buildpackage with sbuild builder on debian buster created schroot from https://salsa.debian.org/xfce-team repos with appropriate tags, I have local git branches however there weren't any patches/changes needed and there only are changelog entries generated by dch --bpo. Please reply if you are interested, and if yes let me know which packages are missing or already outdated. I've backported all packages which had newer version in testing from https://salsa.debian.org/xfce-team/desktop, https://salsa.debian.org/xfce-team/apps and most from the https://salsa.debian.org/xfce-team/goodies. Also when these packages will be ready to be accepted to debian-backports please let me know what is in your opinion best way to upload these. Will one of you reupload it? or can you give me debian maintainer rights(at least temporary if it's possible)? I've read about processes for new maintainers but it's not that clear to me. I'm not sure this topic shouldn't be on the debian-backports mailing list too but even on backports page contribution section there is info to contact concrete package maintainers/teams first. Regards, Sławomir Wójcik
