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

[Michael Biebl]

Am 28.06.2017 um 23:27 schrieb 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)

Also, since the gnome-session <> gnome-session-bin split was originally
done for gdm3, having a hard dep on gnome-session would make the split
pointless, so we should merge the packages again (this would obviously
not be something which should be done in stable)


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