Bug#1081577: gnome-session-bin: should not depend on upower

[Russell Coker]

On Sunday, 23 November 2025 09:49:23 AEDT Jeremy Bícha wrote:
> I'll move the Depends from gnome-session-bin to gnome-shell and
> gnome-control-center. Both of those try to use upower's D-Bus
> interface. upower is used not only to report the device's battery
> state, but also used for the Power Mode (power profiles) feature which
> I believe does work on "desktop" CPUs.
> 
> Practically, this doesn't get you what you requested, but I am taking
> an action in response to your request and have provided justification
> for why this dependency exists.

That sounds reasonable.  The aim of DD work is not to satisfy all requests but 
to generally make things work as well as possible for most people.  Disabling 
a daemon is something a user can do.

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