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

[Michael Biebl]

Am 28.06.2017 um 21:00 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> Marking this as RC (missing dependency to function properly).
> We should fix that in stretch via a point release.

After some more discussion on IRC, we concluded this is a result of the
following upstream change:
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gdm/commit/?id=f66cdfcb

gdm dropped it's own gdm-shell.session in preference of gnome.session.

This file is currently shipped by gnome-session.

Afaics, we have 3 options:

1/ Add a hard dependency on gnome-session to gdm3
(this kind of makes the line
Depends: gnome-session | x-session-manager | x-window-manager |
x-terminal-emulator,
pointless, so this should be dropped if this option is chosen)

2/ Move /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/gnome.session to gnome-session-bin

3/ Revert upstream commit
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gdm/commit/?id=f66cdfcb and possibly
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gdm/commit/?id=9fb36b as well.


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