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

[Marco Perosa]

On Wed, 13 Jul 2022 22:51:05 +0200 Jeremy Bicha
<jeremy.bicha at canonical.com> wrote:
> Please see https://launchpad.net/bugs/1980606 (which was mentioned in
> the debian/changelog).
>
> Without that dependency, the app crashes.

The above mentioned bug, in addition to being related to a different
distribution, doesn't seem to be reproducible.
The original author themselves mentions conflicts with other packages
from a third-party repository, which should already invalidate any
such report.

I'm currently running gnome-control-center 1:42.3-1 with an empty
(equivs generated) gnome-remote-desktop and I don't have any issues,
nor did I have them with previous versions.

> If you want to keep gnome-remote-desktop from running, why don't you
> mask and disable the systemd user services?
>
> You could also lockdown the gsettings values. See
> https://help.gnome.org/admin/system-admin-guide/stable/dconf-lockdown.html
> for some basic documentation on how to do that. I believe that would
> show the Remote Desktop Sharing option in the Settings app but it
> would be impossible to turn the switch on.

This imposes an unreasonable burden to users who simply want to avoid
having an additional, unnecessary, non-essential service for which a
gnome component only provides an optional interface.

The proper solution would be to remove gnome-remote-desktop as a
dependency and ideally add it as a recommended or suggested package.

> I'll probably close this bug.

Please don't.


Thanks,
Marco