On Sat, 21 Sep 2024 at 14:43:15 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> gtg has an autopkgtest that installs gdm3. Please exclude armel from
> the list of architectures where this test is expected to be runnable,
> for example by applying the attached patch.
>
> I'm reasonably sure that gdm3 is not actually required for this test:
> the test runs xvfb-run, which does not require a display manager. However,
> I don't know the specifics of this package or whether it has non-obvious
> dependencies on some GNOME component.
>
> If you can reduce the test's dependencies to avoid a dependency on
> gdm3 and gnome-shell so that it is still runnable on armel, that would
> be an equally valid solution.
Hi Bastian,
I see that you've applied a change differing from the one I proposed,
which swaps the dependency from gdm3 to gnome-session. However, that
doesn't actually solve the problem: both gdm3 and gnome-session depend
on gnome-shell, which is no longer going to be available on armel.
I'm testing a change that removes the gnome-session test-dependency
as well. If the tests still pass and gnome-shell isn't required, then we
can simplify the dependency graph by dropping it entirely. Or, if
gnome-shell *is* required, then the patch I proposed is probably the
only change that is going to work here.
smcv
