Bug#750039: gnome-core: Drop policykit-1-gnome dependency

[Laurent Bigonville]

Le Sun, 01 Jun 2014 01:54:51 +0200,
Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> a écrit :

> Am 01.06.2014 01:07, schrieb Laurent Bigonville:
> > Package: gnome-core
> > Version: 1:3.8+7
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > gnome-shell is already providing an authentication agent, I guess
> > that we should drop the dependency against policykit-1-gnome then.
> > 
> > Note that the .desktop file has the following condition, so the
> > gnome-shell agent should always be used and no race condition should
> > happen:
> > 
> 
> policykit-1-gnome is only required for the fallback session (or now
> called flashback).
> 
> So it depends what we want to do about that.
> I don't know the state of the flashback components and if this is
> still something we want to install as part of the gnome or gnome-core
> meta package.

The gnome-session-flashback package is already depending against
policykit-1-gnome.

But there are actually other packages that are directly recommending or
depending against it, like network-manager-gnome or
network-manager-gnome.

What are we doing?

I think we should review the dependencies of these metapackages, the
notification-daemon dependency could be removed too I guess.

Cheers,

Laurent Bigonville