Bug#755023: gnome-session: should Recommends: gnome-shell, not depend

[Peter Cordes]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 04:51:09PM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> Given the above issue you mention with the gnome session not starting when
> gnome-shell is not present, and bug #755140 where gnome-session seems to talk to
> org.gnome.shell now, I think the Depends is quite appropriate.

 Ah, ok.  I don't even use it myself, I was just trying to get Debian
and Ubuntu back on the same page, and improve the Ubuntu package's
dependencies, after noting a problem while paring down stuff I don't
use after an ubuntu upgrade.

 My issue with it not starting was because I didn't have anything else
set up for it to start.  I wasn't intending to use gnome-session at
all.  I just missed uninstalling it because no reverse-depend led me
back to it from my Ubuntu system, in aptitude!


 You're right, Debian bug #755140 certainly does make me think that
gnome-session is now built to only work right if it starts
gnome-shell, so yeah, Depends.  Probably very recently, since it looks
like the bugs about it are very recent.  If shells other than
gnome-shell are broken with gnome-session, then things have indeed
changed since Ubuntu's decision to drop the Depends to resolve
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-session/+bug/795191 

 Thanks for having a look at this; I'll file a bug on Ubuntu's
package to suggest they no longer drop the gnome-shell dependency.
Go ahead and close this, I guess, unless it turns out that it's a bug
for gnome-session to assume it's only ever starting gnome-shell.

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