Bug#898264: gnome-shell: Hold in unstable until bolt migrates to testing

[Michael Biebl]

Am 09.05.2018 um 14:59 schrieb Jeremy Bicha:
> On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 8:48 AM, Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:
>> Wouldn't a recommends in gnome (or gnome-core) be a better place?
>> I suppose thunderbolt support requires support from other components as
>> well, like gnome-settings-daemon or gnome-control-center?
> 
> See https://bugs.debian.org/897633
> 
> I'm interpreting your question as a question about whether people who
> intentionally install gnome-shell but don't install gnome-core should
> still get Thunderbolt support out of the box?
> 
> gnome-shell seemed like a reasonable place to add that dependency and
> a Recommends there seemed appropriate, but we could move it if you
> want.

I don't think gnome-shell should become a sort of meta-package, which
pulls in other components which are not strictly relevant to its own
functionality. For that we have gnome-core and gnome, which would be a
more suitable place I think.

Regards,
Michael
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