I said: > Depends: mate-desktop-common (>= 1.14.1)
Or even better: Use a >= clause in libmate-desktop-2-17.shlibs. Currently this is just: libmate-desktop-2 17 libmate-desktop-2-17 which is odd, because mate-terminal has this in the control file: libmate-desktop-dev (>= 1.14) but the shlibs file does not ensure that the resulting dependency (via dpkg-shlibdsp) is also >= 1.14 on libmate-desktop-2-17. I would call this the real underlying bug in this little mess, not Britney. Thanks.
