Bug#743401: gnome-session: there is no session name mate while trying to login

[shirish शिरीष]

Package: gnome-session
Version: 3.8.4-3
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,
I would like to try mate but gnome-session or/and gdm3 doesn't show
mate as a choice.

Looking at /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions I see the following choices only :-

/usr/share/gnome-session/sessions$ ls
cinnamon2d.session  gdm-shell.session      gnome-flashback.session
openbox-gnome-fallback.session
cinnamon.session    gnome-classic.session  gnome.session
openbox-gnome.session

shouldn't there be a mate-gnome.session as well ? I don't know if the
bug is in gnome-session, gdm3 or mate itself. It would be nice if
people could tell who's the culprit and re-direct if gdm3 is not at
fault.

Looking forward to understand.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (600, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-updates'), (1,
'experimental'), (1, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IN, LC_CTYPE=en_IN (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-session depends on:
ii  gnome-session-bin      3.8.4-3
ii  gnome-session-common   3.8.4-3
ii  gnome-settings-daemon  3.8.5-2
ii  gnome-shell            3.8.4-5+b1

gnome-session recommends no packages.

Versions of packages gnome-session suggests:
ii  desktop-base      7.0.3
ii  gnome-keyring     3.8.2-2+b1
ii  gnome-user-guide  3.8.2-1

-- no debconf information


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