[pkg-cinnamon] Bug#764237: Needlessly "Depends" on lightdm or gdm3

[Thibaut Paumard]

Package: cinnamon-core
Version: 2.2.3
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

cinnamon-core depends on ligthdm | gdm3, but it can be used without any of the two. I use it without a DM at all (using the nodm package, but one could also simply use startx), and there are more DMs in Debian than those two. I had to use equivs to get rid of lightdm.

In my opinion, this dependency should read:

Recommends: lightdm | x-display-manager

This would still (by default) ensure that a DM is installed, picking lightdm if possible, without pushing a new DM on a machine already set-up to use kdm. This also allows users to bypass this recommendation altogether.

Kind regards, thibaut.

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

Kernel: Linux 3.16-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages cinnamon-core depends on:
ii  cinnamon                                     2.2.16-1
ii  cinnamon-control-center                      2.2.11-3
ii  cinnamon-screensaver                         2.2.4-5+b1
ii  cinnamon-session                             2.2.2-3+b1
ii  cinnamon-settings-daemon                     2.2.4.repack-5+b1
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.22.0-1
ii  desktop-base                                 7.0.3
ii  lightdm                                      1:0-0
ii  muffin                                       2.2.6-3
ii  nemo                                         2.2.4-2

Versions of packages cinnamon-core recommends:
ii  cinnamon-l10n          2.2.4-1
ii  gnome-keyring          3.14.0-1
ii  gnome-themes-standard  3.12.0-1
ii  libpam-gnome-keyring   3.14.0-1

Versions of packages cinnamon-core suggests:
pn  cinnamon-desktop-environment  <none>

-- no debconf information