Bug#850291: gdm3: does not work without gnome-session

[Michael Biebl]

Control: severity -1 serious

On Thu, 5 Jan 2017 13:33:21 -0500 Daniel Gnoutcheff
<gnoutchd at softwarefreedom.org> wrote:
> Package: gdm3
> Version: 3.22.1-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> If I try to run gdm3 while gnome-session is not installed, the greeter
> will not come up.  It instead blanks and unblanks the screen repeatedly,
> presumably as it keeps respawning the greeter.  Installing gnome-session
> fixes it.
> 
> It sounds like gnome-session-bin was supposed to be sufficient, but
> apparently it isn't at the moment.
> 

Marking this as RC (missing dependency to function properly).
We should fix that in stretch via a point release.



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