Bug#1070119: gnome-remote-desktop: missing gnome-remote-desktop user setup in salsa upcoming 46 version

[Jeremy Bícha]

Control: severity -1 important

On Tue, Apr 30, 2024 at 9:57 AM Alban Browaeys <prahal at yahoo.com> wrote:
> The issue seems to be that the user gnome-remote-desktop is not existing
> thus the system wide systemd gnome-remote-desktop.service fails to
> start:

The gnome-remote-desktop user is new for gnome-remote-desktop 46. The
user ought to be created by the package and it seems to work for
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (which uses the same packaging).

> I found no issue tracker on the salsa project for gnome-remote-desktop
> so opened the issue here.

I wouldn't open an upstream bug for this issue yet since we should
assume this is a Debian packaging issue until confirmed otherwise.

> I believe the bug is import as it prevents opening a new desktop session
> (but it still works when connection to an existing session).

Yes, I've bumped the severity but what do you mean about connecting to
an existing session? It's not intended to run, for instance,
gnome-remote-desktop 45 with gnome-shell 46 or with gnome-shell 44 but
I guess the package dependencies aren't set quite that strict.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha