forcemerge 818366 872553 897348
severity 818366 serious
clone 818366 -1
reassign -1 release-notes
retitle -1 synaptic and other apps don't work on Wayland
severity -1 normal
thanks

Hi Jeremy,

On 05-03-2019 08:04, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> These bugs are almost certainly duplicate of https://bugs.debian.org/818366
> 
> Could you handle marking them as duplicates? (Sorry, I find it tedious
> to do that in Debian.)

Done per above with the first command to cont...@bugs.debian.org

> I don't think Synaptic is going to work on Wayland in time for Buster
> regardless of how many RC bugs we file against it. Maybe severity:
> important is good enough

If synaptic isn't working at all in the default desktop with the default
way of logging in, is it a service to our users if we ship synaptic at
all with buster? I'm not convinced of that, so I left the bug at RC
level. Or am I missing something from your explanation?

> with a mention in the Release Notes that
> Debian GNOME uses Wayland by default and you'll need to log in to
> "GNOME on Xorg" if you want to use certain apps like Synaptic or most
> screen recording apps.

And cloned the bug against the release-notes to have that end up there.

Paul

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