I guess I should respond eventually!
Upgrade does actually remove xscreensaver (the package is gone, the
binary is gone, it's gone.), and replaces with it gnome-screensaver.
The xscreensaver preferences stored in ~/.xscreensaver are still there,
and when gnome-screensaver is (again) removed and x
Thanks for the link, I was vaguely familiar with the criticisms against
gnome-screensaver but it's good to have a reference here.
It's probably moot to argue (in this bug) about whether or not ubuntu-
desktop should or should not depend on gnome-screensaver, but the fact
that you successfully repl
gnome-screensaver is broken and will not be fixed:
Bug 22007
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-screensaver/+bug/22007
>From 2005!
So the bug here should be against ubuntu-desktop since it depends on a
broken package?
Unity scared me away when I did the upgrade, and I didn't even b
This is hardly a bug in update-manager. The output of "aptitude why
gnome-screensaver" on my system indicates that ubuntu-desktop depends on
gnome-screensaver. You may be able to work around this by installing a
dummy equivs package, or perhaps by setting the status of xscreensaver
to "hold". I
