Package: gnome-core Version: 1:3.22+8 Severity: normal Hello,
gnome-shell currently encourages users to download extensions off the internet, and forces a chromium plugin, always enabled by system-wide /etc/chromium policy, to expose extension information to extensions.gnome.org. It also exposes a firefox plugin, which I have not investigated. Such browser integration is a feature that I do not trust, I do not need, and I do not want. Finding myself unable to remove chrome-gnome-shell without breaking gnome dependencies, I resorted to writing an equivs replacement for chrome-gnome-shell[1], and my desktop is running perfectly, except that if I go to extensions.gnome.org I get a message inviting me to install gnome shell integration, which is appropriate. That the equivs package works so well, makes a pretty good case to me that the chrome-gnome-shell should be brought in by a Recommends: rather than a Depends: Enrico [1] http://www.enricozini.org/blog/2018/debian/gnome-without-chrome-gnome-shell/ -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages gnome-core depends on: ii adwaita-icon-theme 3.26.1-3 ii at-spi2-core 2.26.2-2 ii baobab 3.26.1-2 ii caribou 0.4.21-4 ii chromium 62.0.3202.89-1 ii contain-gnome-shell [chrome-gnome-shell] 1.0 ii dconf-cli 0.26.1-3 ii dconf-gsettings-backend 0.26.1-3 ii eog 3.26.2-3 ii evince 3.26.0-3 ii evolution-data-server 3.26.3-4 ii firefox-esr 52.6.0esr-2 ii fonts-cantarell 0.0.25-4 ii gdm3 3.26.2.1-3 ii gedit 3.22.1-3 ii gkbd-capplet 3.26.0-2 ii glib-networking 2.54.1-2 ii gnome-backgrounds 3.26.2-2 ii gnome-bluetooth 3.26.1-2 ii gnome-calculator 3.26.0-3+b1 ii gnome-characters 3.26.2-2 ii gnome-contacts 3.26.1-1 ii gnome-control-center 1:3.26.2-1 ii gnome-disk-utility 3.26.2-2 ii gnome-font-viewer 3.26.0-2 ii gnome-keyring 3.20.1-2 ii gnome-logs 3.26.2-2 ii gnome-menus 3.13.3-11 ii gnome-online-accounts 3.26.2-1 ii gnome-online-miners 3.26.0-2 ii gnome-session 3.26.1-2 ii gnome-settings-daemon 3.26.2-1 ii gnome-shell 3.26.2-4 ii gnome-shell-extensions 3.26.2-3 ii gnome-software 3.26.5-1 ii gnome-sushi 3.24.0-3 ii gnome-system-monitor 3.26.0-3 ii gnome-terminal 3.26.2-3 ii gnome-themes-standard 3.22.3-4 ii gnome-user-docs 3.26.2.1-1 ii gnome-user-share 3.18.3-3 ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.24.1-2 ii gstreamer1.0-packagekit 1.1.7-1 ii gstreamer1.0-plugins-base 1.12.4-1 ii gstreamer1.0-plugins-good 1.12.4-1 ii gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio 1.12.4-1 ii gvfs-backends 1.34.1-2 ii gvfs-bin 1.34.1-2 ii gvfs-fuse 1.34.1-2 ii libatk-adaptor 2.26.1-1 ii libcanberra-pulse 0.30-6 ii libpam-gnome-keyring 3.20.1-2 ii libproxy1-plugin-gsettings 0.4.14-4 ii nautilus 3.26.2-2 ii pulseaudio 11.1-4 ii sound-theme-freedesktop 0.8-2 ii system-config-printer-common 1.5.9-3 ii system-config-printer-udev 1.5.9-3 ii totem 3.26.0-3 ii tracker 2.0.2-1 ii vino 3.22.0-2 ii yelp 3.26.0-2 ii zenity 3.26.0-2 Versions of packages gnome-core recommends: ii anacron 2.3-24 ii libproxy1-plugin-networkmanager 0.4.14-4 ii network-manager-gnome 1.8.10-2 Versions of packages gnome-core suggests: ii gnome 1:3.22+8 -- no debconf information
