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and subject line Re: Bug#755023: gnome-session: should Recommends: gnome-shell,
not depend
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regarding gnome-session: should Recommends: gnome-shell, not depend
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Source: gnome-session
Version: 3.12.1-3
Severity: normal
reporting here to hopefully get Debian and Ubuntu back in sync on this.
Ubuntu dropped the gnome-shell dependency from gnome-session for
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-session/+bug/795191
That led to the possibility of having a broken X startup, with xinit
starting gnome-session instead of fluxbox or something, but then it
dying after it can't find anything it wants to start. I just opened
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-session/+bug/1342970
about this.
The obvious fix is for gnome-session to Recommends: gnome-shell
People that want to use something else with gnome-session can simply
break the Recommend. Or have the packages for something-else have a
Provides: gnome-shell, if that's not a terrible idea. The Ubuntu bug
from 2011 proposed a virtual package name that things could provide.
If nobody wants to do all that work, just changing to a Recommends:
is really easy, and is a good enough solution.
I was trying to remove all the gnome stuff, since I use fluxbox, and
following the reverse dependency chain up to the top stopped at
gnome-shell, which I removed. Nothing led back to gnome-session.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers trusty-updates
APT policy: (500, 'trusty-updates'), (500, 'trusty-security'), (500, 'trusty')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.13.0-30-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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On 18/07/14 22:02, Peter Cordes wrote:
> Thanks for having a look at this; I'll file a bug on Ubuntu's
> package to suggest they no longer drop the gnome-shell dependency.
> Go ahead and close this, I guess, unless it turns out that it's a bug
> for gnome-session to assume it's only ever starting gnome-shell.
Not a bug imho. Let's close this.
Emilio
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