On 17/07/14 00:12, Peter Cordes wrote: > 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.
Given the above issue you mention with the gnome session not starting when gnome-shell is not present, and bug #755140 where gnome-session seems to talk to org.gnome.shell now, I think the Depends is quite appropriate. Emilio > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > pkg-gnome-maintainers mailing list > pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-gnome-maintainers > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
