Bug#1014879: Please do not depend on gnome-remote-desktop

[Josh Triplett]

On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 10:51:05PM +0200, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 6:27 PM Josh Triplett <josh at joshtriplett.org> wrote:
> > gnome-control-center 1:42.3-1 adds a dependency on gnome-remote-desktop,
> 
> Please see https://launchpad.net/bugs/1980606 (which was mentioned in
> the debian/changelog).
> 
> Without that dependency, the app crashes.
> 
> Perhaps the gsettings schemas could be split to a separate package but
> I believe the code assumes that gnome-remote-desktop is available. So
> we would just have a different bug.

That does indeed seem like a bug, and I'd be happy for this bug to be
repurposed to that effect: "gnome-control-center should work without
gnome-remote-desktop installed". (Having the schemas installed doesn't
seem like a problem.)

> If you want to keep gnome-remote-desktop from running, why don't you
> mask and disable the systemd user services?

That would be my next logical path, but in general I try to minimize the
number of things I have to have installed-and-disabled, so it seemed
worth first seeing if this could become a Recommends. And it sounds like
the answer is that first gnome-control-center would need a fix to not
require it.