Bug#457549: gnome-screensaver: Wants non-existing pam_gnome_keyring.so

[Bill Wohler]

Loïc Minier <lool at dooz.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 27, 2008, Bill Wohler wrote:
> > I have a pretty vanilla lenny installation. Certainly not unusual. If
> > what you say is true, then it should have already been installed.
> > Perhaps there is a missing dependency elsewhere.
> 
>  Well, APT now enforces Recommends by default, but the Debian Installer
>  does not.  I guess it will start doing so in the next months, when
>  Recommends clutter in the archive has been fixed a little.
> 
>  In the mean time during the transition, you can ask aptitude to show
>  you broken Recommends by searching for "~i ~BRecommends" (IIRC), or
>  apt-get with "apt-get install --fix-policy".

Loïc,

Thanks for the great feedback! If what you say is true, then this bug
can probably be closed. However, it would be helpful to others to create
README.Debian and add the following text to it:

  This package recommends the libpam-gnome-keyring package. If this
  package is not installed, you will see errors such as the following in
  /var/log/auth.log.

    gnome-screensaver-dialog: PAM unable to
    dlopen(/lib/security/pam_gnome_keyring.so)
    gnome-screensaver-dialog: PAM [error:
    /lib/security/pam_gnome_keyring.so: cannot open shared object file:
    No such file or directory]
    gnome-screensaver-dialog: PAM adding faulty module:
    /lib/security/pam_gnome_keyring.so

  You can either ignore the message or install the libpam-gnome-keyring
  package:

/~i ~BRecommends isn't doing the right thing for me. It's listing
installed packages that don't even *have* Recommends dependencies. 

However, aptitude has a Views > Audit Recommendations menu item which is
documented as "View packages which it is recommended that you install,
but which are not currently installed." This seems to DTRT.

The apt-get install --fix-policy command seems to do the same thing.

However, I wouldn't want the gcj stuff installed (I use Sun's Java 6),
nor xserver-xorg-video-all (I only need a single driver), but most of
the recommendations are fine. Do you know if these are going to be
included in the "cleanup" you mention?

I see that my aptitude has an Option to install recommended packages for
newly installed packages, so it looks like we should be good going
forward.

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Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>  http://www.newt.com/wohler/  GnuPG ID:610BD9AD