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 replaced it, and it reverted your preference when you upgraded, is a bug. I'm not sure where it should be properly filed so I'm leaving both tasks open. (I originally created a second task because there doesn't seem to be a way in Launchpad to reassign from a non-Ubuntu project to a package within the Ubuntu project. Maybe there is a way but if so, I could not discover it.) For completeness, could you still confirm whether the upgrade actually removed the xscreensaver package from your system, or just replaced your preferences to use gnome-screensaver but left xscreensaver (nominally) installed on your system? The former would be a bug in its own right, but I suspect the case here is the latter. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/775369 Title: Update manager removes xscreensaver and replaces with gnome- screensaver -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
