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

[Tomas Pospisek]

On Thu, 4 Dec 2014, Josselin Mouette wrote:

> Hi Tomas,
>
> Tomas Pospisek <tpo at sourcepole.ch> wrote:
>        > > 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?
>
> Well, partial upgrades are not “supported” per se, but they are expected
> not to leave your system in an unusable state, so when there’s a
> lockstep upgrade we should match it in the dependencies.

Agreed.

But I do not think the release team will allow a new version of 
upower to migrate to jessie because it fixes such a (IMHO) minor issue? Do 
you think they will?

And once jessie is released then really I can't see much sense of adding 
that information either because by then you'll allready be running upower 
and gdm3 from jessie and so this becomes a non-issue?

I.e. it becomes a pure formality without any real impact or effect.

?

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