Bug#293949: gnome-desktop-environment: Please do not depend on FAM

[Roberto Lumbreras]

Package: gnome-desktop-environment
Severity: normal


fam is broken, it breaks umounting cdroms, and it's an unsolved old
problem:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=245448
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=272577

A Debian system is useless if novice users are unable to unmount cdroms,
so I think this is a RC bug (fam bug) and that gnome shouldn't depend on
it, until fixed.

gamin seems to do the same without problems, so could you please remove
the fam dependency?

Regards,
Roberto Lumbreras

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-k7
Locale: LANG=es_ES@euro, LC_CTYPE=es_ES@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages gnome-desktop-environment depends on:
pn  epiphany-browser | galeon                Not found.
pn  esound                                   Not found.
ii  fam                           2.7.0-6    File Alteration Monitor
pn  file-roller                              Not found.
pn  gcalctool                                Not found.
pn  gconf-editor                             Not found.
pn  gnome-about                              Not found.
pn  gnome-core                               Not found.
pn  gnome-games                              Not found.
pn  gnome-gv                                 Not found.
pn  gnome-media                              Not found.
pn  gnome-system-monitor                     Not found.
pn  gnome-themes                             Not found.
pn  gnome-utils                              Not found.
pn  gnome2-user-guide                        Not found.
pn  gnomemeeting                             Not found.
pn  gpdf                                     Not found.
pn  gucharmap                                Not found.
pn  mozilla-xft | mozilla-browser            Not found.
pn  nautilus-cd-burner                       Not found.
pn  nautilus-media                           Not found.
pn  zenity                                   Not found.