Bug#1139742: gnome-remote-desktop: Installing (or upgrading to) version 50.1-5 of gnome-remote-desktop REMOVES gdm3.

[Emmanuel Charpentier]

Package: gnome-remote-desktop
Version: Testing : (recent version of) gnome-remote-desktop is incompatible with gdm3
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
X-Debbugs-Cc: emm.charpentier at free.fr

Dear Maintainer,

a routine update of my installation of testing (proposed by the Gnome software
manager) installed gnome-remote-desktop 50.1-5, which removed gdm3, leaving me
with no access to X.

An efficient stopgap measure was to remove gnome-remote-desktop.

This is reproductible : trying to reinstall gnome-software-manager againt plans
to remove gdm3 :

===========================================================
charpent at brique:~$ sudo apt install -s gnome-remote-desktop
[sudo] Mot de passe de charpent :

Installation de :
  gnome-remote-desktop

SUPPRESSION :
  gdm3

Sommaire :
  Mise à niveau de : 0. Installation de : 1, Supprimé : 1. Non mis à jour : 0
Remv gdm3 [49.2-4]
Inst gnome-remote-desktop (50.1-5 Debian:testing, Debian:unstable [amd64])
Conf gnome-remote-desktop (50.1-5 Debian:testing, Debian:unstable [amd64])
===========================================================

I was tempted to flag this probleme as "critical" (renders the system
unusable), but did not want to cry "Wolf !"

Hope this helps...


-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (100, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 7.0.10+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.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-remote-desktop depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.49.0-4+b1
ii  fuse3                                        3.18.2-2
ii  libc6                                        2.42-16
ii  libcairo2                                    1.18.4-3+b1
ii  libdrm2                                      2.4.134-1
ii  libei1                                       1.5.0-3+b1
ii  libepoxy0                                    1.5.10-2+b2
ii  libfreerdp-server3-3                         3.26.0+dfsg-1
ii  libfreerdp3-3                                3.26.0+dfsg-1
ii  libfuse3-4                                   3.18.2-2
ii  libglib2.0-0t64                              2.88.1-2
ii  libkrb5-3                                    1.22.1-2.1
ii  libnotify4                                   0.8.8-1+b1
ii  libopus0                                     1.6.1-1+b1
ii  libpipewire-0.3-0t64                         1.6.6-1
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0                        127-3
ii  libsecret-1-0                                0.21.7-2+b1
ii  libsystemd0                                  260.1-1
ii  libtss2-esys-3.0.2-0t64                      4.1.3-6
ii  libtss2-mu-4.0.1-0t64                        4.1.3-6
ii  libtss2-rc0t64                               4.1.3-6
ii  libtss2-tctildr0t64                          4.1.3-6
ii  libva-drm2                                   2.23.0-2
ii  libva2                                       2.23.0-2
ii  libvulkan1                                   1.4.341.0-1
ii  libwinpr3-3                                  3.26.0+dfsg-1
ii  libxkbcommon0                                1.13.1-1
ii  pipewire                                     1.6.6-1
ii  systemd [systemd-tmpfiles]                   260.1-1
ii  wireplumber                                  0.5.14-1

Versions of packages gnome-remote-desktop recommends:
ii  libmutter-17-0  49.4-1

gnome-remote-desktop suggests no packages.