Bug#538694: gnome-screensaver just doesn't work anymore

[Dominique Brazziel]

I don't see why this bug doesn't have a status of grave.
The package is unusable.  There was another bug filed
with a title of 'Idle time not honored' or some such, and
it was closed with a note that it is fixed in unstable and
maybe a note about gnome-session but no explanation as to 
what the original problem was or where the fix is or what 
it looks like (single or multiple patch?  multiple package
upgrades?  Total gnome-session infrastructure rewrite?)

This has been broken for some time and it would be nice
to know a little bit more about what is going on with 
respect to getting it functional.