I redid my patch to not try to change too much. I left network-manager-gnome alone and kept LibreOffice – at least the part of LibreOffice that the 'gnome' metapackage depends on.
Thanks, Jeremy Bicha
From 8b4e46360f38f00ad4063c8ed17f57470d609406 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeremy Bicha <jbi...@debian.org> Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2017 16:42:54 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] gnome: Don't recommend Synaptic, Gimp or full LibreOffice Drop Synaptic since it doesn't work in Wayland. See bug 8183366. (Alternatives are gnome-software which is already installed, or gnome-packagekit, or switch to the GNOME on Xorg session.) The 'gnome' metapackage intentionally installs specific LibreOffice packages instead of the 'libreoffice' metapackage. Drop gimp since it's not important enough to install for everyone. The Debian GNOME team is discussing dropping it from the 'gnome' metapackage. Closes: #878483 --- debian/control | 8 +++----- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index ef6a0a48..59cbf628 100644 --- a/debian/control +++ b/debian/control @@ -76,15 +76,13 @@ Recommends: # GNOME support in LibreOffice libreoffice-gnome, libreoffice-evolution, -# temporarily moved from task-desktop due to #525077 - gimp, -# Package management. - synaptic, # firefox is the most popular web browser at the moment, # although both gnome and kde offer their own too firefox-esr | firefox, # libreoffice is the best word processor / office suite at the moment - libreoffice, + libreoffice-writer, + libreoffice-calc, + libreoffice-impress, # make help menu work libreoffice-help-en-us, # make thesaurus work -- 2.14.1