Bug#901711: arctica-greeter: please downgrade mate-settings-daemon to Recommends

[Mike Gabriel]

Hi,

On Mon, 13 Aug 2018 23:06:00 +0200 Mike Gabriel 
<mike.gabriel at das-netzwerkteam.de> wrote:
 > Control: forwarded -1
 > https://github.com/ArcticaProject/arctica-greeter/issues/12
 >
 > Hi Phil,
 >
 > On Sun, 17 Jun 2018 09:24:03 +0100 Phil Morrell <debian at emorrp1.name> 
wrote:
 > > Package: arctica-greeter
 > > Version: 0.99.0.2-2~bpo9+1
 > > Severity: normal
 > >
 > > I'm normally a fan of installing all recommends, but when trying out
 > > -guest-session on an Xfce system, I found it was pulling in all 
sorts of
 > > other DE packages (and openbox). I was able to exclude most of them by
 > > disabling Recommends for ayatana-indicator-session.
 >
 > Thanks for the pointer to a-i-session. I have just uploaded 0.4.2-2 that
 > has most of those Recommends: moved to Suggests: field.
 >
 > > Unfortunately, with mate-settings-daemon a Depends, I was unable to
 > > exclude that tree of mate dependencies. Now, to be fair, I haven't
 > > actually checked/tested to see if it is required for arctica-greeter to
 > > work, but if not, please reduce the dependency tree by making it
 > > Recommends.
 >
 > In fact, arctica-greeter requires mate-settings-daemon for some
 > features. It might be an idea to make this optional (or remove it
 > entirely as done in slick-greeter).
 >
 > See https://github.com/ArcticaProject/arctica-greeter/issues/12

Just for the record, I just tested arctica.greeter on a system with 
mate-settings-daemon removed. It fails to start then. We'll see if I can 
make m-s-d optional or not (with my upstream hat on).

Mike