Bug#1074547: gnome-session: Please make gnome-desktop depend on xdg-desktop-portal-gnome

[Reinhard Tartler]

Package: gnome-session
Version: 46.0-2
Severity: wishlist

Please make gnome-desktop depend on xdg-desktop-portal-gnome.

Currently, gnome-session has Depends: xdg-desktop-portal-gnome | xdg-desktop-portal-backend

If a gnome user manages to end up with xdg-desktop-portal-gtk installed without
xdg-desktop-portal-gnome, screensharing will not work in web browser and
similar.

This is what happened to me and I found the situation very hard to
diagnose. Installing the xdg-desktop-portal-gnome made screensharing work after
a relogin.

thanks for considering



-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.8.12-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages gnome-session depends on:
ii  adwaita-icon-theme                                     46.0-1
ii  fonts-cantarell                                        0.303.1-1
ii  gnome-session-bin                                      46.0-2
ii  gnome-session-common                                   46.0-2
ii  gnome-settings-daemon                                  46.0-1+b3
ii  gnome-shell                                            44.9-2+b1
ii  xdg-desktop-portal-gnome [xdg-desktop-portal-backend]  44.2-4+b1
ii  xdg-desktop-portal-gtk [xdg-desktop-portal-backend]    1.15.1-1+b1

gnome-session recommends no packages.

Versions of packages gnome-session suggests:
ii  desktop-base   12.0.6+nmu1
ii  gnome-keyring  46.1-2

-- no debconf information