[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#755475: gnome-shell-common: since 3.12 components entered testing, gnome-shell breaks GDM

[Tomas Pospisek]

Josselin Mouette wrote on 14 Aug 2014:

> Le lundi 21 juillet 2014 à 15:18 +0300, Martin-Éric Racine a écrit :
> > >
> > > So you have the new upower, which doesn't have that API anymore. The 
> > > new gnome-shell fixes that, which should migrate in the following days.
> >
> > Just checked by performing this:
> > 
> > sudo apt-get install upower/stable gnome-power-manager/stable
> > 
> > Rebooted. GDM works as normal. Thanks! :)
> > 
> > Would it be a good idea to set thighter package interdependencies or,
> > at least, put a Breaks: gdm (<< 3.12) to upower?
> 
> Agreed. Reassigning.

Seeing that gdm3 in wheezy was 3.4.1-8 and that "everybody" is going to 
update to gdm3 >= 3.14.1-3 for jessie or the versions in jessie anyway I'm 
not sure this is required?

Is there some specific scenario where users would be running with 
"unreleased", older gdm3's?

Thanks,
*t