On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 04:51:09PM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > 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.
Ah, ok. I don't even use it myself, I was just trying to get Debian and Ubuntu back on the same page, and improve the Ubuntu package's dependencies, after noting a problem while paring down stuff I don't use after an ubuntu upgrade. My issue with it not starting was because I didn't have anything else set up for it to start. I wasn't intending to use gnome-session at all. I just missed uninstalling it because no reverse-depend led me back to it from my Ubuntu system, in aptitude! You're right, Debian bug #755140 certainly does make me think that gnome-session is now built to only work right if it starts gnome-shell, so yeah, Depends. Probably very recently, since it looks like the bugs about it are very recent. If shells other than gnome-shell are broken with gnome-session, then things have indeed changed since Ubuntu's decision to drop the Depends to resolve https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-session/+bug/795191 Thanks for having a look at this; I'll file a bug on Ubuntu's package to suggest they no longer drop the gnome-shell dependency. Go ahead and close this, I guess, unless it turns out that it's a bug for gnome-session to assume it's only ever starting gnome-shell. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X(peter@cor , des.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
