[Pkg-lxde-maintainers] Bug#843341: lxde: installing lxde doesn't give me an LXDE session

[Mike Kupfer]

Hi Andriy, thanks for the prompt response.

Andriy Grytsenko wrote:

> Thank you very much for reporting this. Apparently this issue is coming
> from the fact there is no lxde-session package which is named lxde-common
> and therefore many are confused because lxde package is just metapackage
> with components but session files itself.

Well, the dependencies in Jessie are set up so that task-lxde-desktop
pulls in lxde; lxde pulls in lxde-core; and lxde-core pulls in
lxde-common; lxde-common contains the xsession file.

This makes it convenient for users:

- if they want a full LXDE desktop with all the standard Debian
  applications, they just install task-lxde-desktop

- if they want a "standard" LXDE desktop, they just install lxde

- if they want a minimal LXDE desktop, they install lxde-core

I think that's the way things should work in Stretch, too.

I'm not sure what fix you have in mind, but I'm guessing that you're
thinking about renaming lxde-common.  If you require users to install
that package in addition to one of the metapackages, you'll make LXDE
more work to install compared to how things are in Jessie.

warm regards,
mike