On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Ted Gould <t...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > On Mon, 2010-09-06 at 12:54 -0400, Andrew SB wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Teodor MICU <mteo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Raising the severity due to the fact that the package cannot be >> > installed in the current configuration. Probably this was fixed >> > somehow by Ubuntu since there it is installed by default with 'gdm3'. >> >> This seems a bit unfortunate. I'm not sure why they would apply a >> patch to GDM which will probably not be accepted upstream when they >> control the upstream of indicator-applet-session. It seems like they >> could have better fixed this there. > > The reason was for migration. We wanted users who had already > configured their panels to have one to get a seamless migration. > Migrating gnome-panel configurations is very difficult, and not > recommended if you don't have to. > > I'd recommend that Debian move the indicator-applet-session .server file > to match the rest of them in indicator-applet and not override the > FastUserSwitchApplet namespace as Debian does not have this migration > issue.
Thanks for the clarification Ted. I've committed the attached patch to pkg-ayatana bzr. Could someone please sponsor the upload? Thanks! - Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
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