[Debian-on-mobile-maintainers] Bug#968106: Bug#968106: Bug#968106: Bug#968106: phosh: Shell doesn't start

[Guido Günther]

Hi,
On Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 05:50:15PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting Bernhard Übelacker (2020-08-16 17:28:13)
> > Hello Michel Le Bihan,
> > found this issue interesting and tried to get more information.
> > 
> > First the "trap int3" originates from here [1], and seems just
> > a consequence of missing packages.
> > 
> > When installing following packages the user interface
> > could successfully start, without changing the VM vga "hardware".
> > 
> >   systemctl stop phosh
> >   apt update
> >   apt install --no-install-recommends --no-install-suggests gnome-session-bin libglib2.0-bin gnome-settings-daemon policykit-1 phosh-osk-stub
> >   systemctl start phosh
> 
> I interpret that as there really is no bug here;
> 
> Suppressing recommendations is meant for exotic use-cases and therefore 
> suppressing multiple recommendations quite likely leads to a broken 
> unsupportable result.
> 
> Beware that mmdebstrap suppresses recommends by default.
> 
> mmdebstrap is not doing anything wrong: it is a powerful tool which can 
> do powerful good or powerful breakage depending on how it is used.

We don't have a 'keyboard' (either stub or real) nor
gnome-settings-daemon in 'recommends' - that at least should be fixed.
Cheers,
 -- Guido

> 
> 
>  - Jonas
> 
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