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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
