Bug#755023: gnome-session: should Recommends: gnome-shell, not depend

[Peter Cordes]

Source: gnome-session
Version: 3.12.1-3
Severity: normal

reporting here to hopefully get Debian and Ubuntu back in sync on this.

Ubuntu dropped the gnome-shell dependency from gnome-session for
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-session/+bug/795191

That led to the possibility of having a broken X startup, with xinit
starting gnome-session instead of fluxbox or something, but then it
dying after it can't find anything it wants to start.  I just opened
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-session/+bug/1342970
about this.

 The obvious fix is for gnome-session to Recommends: gnome-shell
People that want to use something else with gnome-session can simply
break the Recommend.  Or have the packages for something-else have a
Provides: gnome-shell, if that's not a terrible idea.  The Ubuntu bug
from 2011 proposed a virtual package name that things could provide.
If nobody wants to do all that work, just changing to a Recommends:
is really easy, and is a good enough solution.

 I was trying to remove all the gnome stuff, since I use fluxbox, and
following the reverse dependency chain up to the top stopped at
gnome-shell, which I removed.  Nothing led back to gnome-session.



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

Kernel: Linux 3.13.0-30-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash