severity 927667 serious thanks [ I wrote the following reply to smcv's last mail to this bug, but only sent it to -desktop: https://lists.debian.org/debian-desktop/2019/05/msg00000.html ]
Thanks to Simon for filing this bug in the first place and for engaging in discussion about the issue. My personal conclusion is that we, as a project, need to spend more time carefully evaluating Wayland prior to it being the default desktop technology for Debian, following the approach we have used for other major technologies adopted by default (e.g. systemd). This hasn't happened for Wayland yet, and I'm concerned that it may just not be quite ready (e.g. #928030, #928002). I want an explicit ACK or NACK on this, and so I'm bumping severity so that this bug can't languish past Buster release. Justification is the regression in behavour wrt X11 (as documented in those two bugs amongst others) break unrelated software. I'll interpret downgrading as being a NACK, but I would *really* appreciate engagement instead of just bug severity changes. Two ways of resolving this are: Either the default GNOME3 session in Debian switched back to Xorg, or the default desktop session is switched away from GNOME; but I would much prefer the former. -- Jonathan Dowland
