MATE桌面环境将进入Debian软件仓库，开发者已经成立了一个新的Debian MATE 封装团队，致力于让MATE成为下一个Debian版本的一部分。第一个软件包已经进入了仓库，还有许多包正在上传队列中。MATE是一个GNOME 2的一个分支，因为GNOME 3变化太大，引发了用户的不满，MATE才应运而生。
"Fans of the MATE desktop environment, which is a fork of Gnome 2, will be happy to know that MATE is scheduled to be included in the official Debian repositories. Early 2012, it was requested that MATE be included in said repositories, and almost 2 years later, it appears we're almost there."
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