Package: gdm
Version: latest
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
xbase-clients has been split and is just present as a transitional
package. I went on to install a minimal system to check which of its
components did gdm need, and found that gdm works fine without any of
them.
In fact, when checking the changelog, it shows that this dependency was
added as a workaround and nowadays is entirely bogus:
* Add depends on xbase-clients until #242485 is fixed in X. (closes: #247065)
Since this is now fixed (the fix for #242485 made it into sarge!), could
you remove that dependency?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-amd64
Locale: LANG=ca_AD.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ca_AD.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
diff -ur gdm-2.20.2/debian/control.in gdm-2.20.2.new/debian/control.in
--- gdm-2.20.2/debian/control.in 2007-12-10 19:11:36.000000000 +0100
+++ gdm-2.20.2.new/debian/control.in 2007-12-10 19:12:30.000000000 +0100
@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@
libpam-modules (>= 0.72-1),
libpam-runtime (>= 0.76-13.1),
gnome-session | xterm | x-window-manager | x-terminal-emulator,
- xbase-clients,
gksu (>= 1.0.7),
lsb-base (>= 3.0-10),
librsvg2-common
