Bug#776746: gnome-session: GNOME crashes during a remote desktop access

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Now I can sum up the conclution of this bug:
1) It won't be fixed in Jessie although it also influences wheezy;
2) For developers: Tigervnc should be included in Debian 9 and replace tightvnc,
    if not, this issue won't be fixed in Debian 9; probably should consider a Jessie
    backport when Tigervnc is available;
3) For system administrators and normal users: IF you want to use remote desktop
    server in Jessie, DO NOT use default desktop (GNOME). If you really like GNOME
    or other GNOME3's fork (Unity, Cinnamon, etc), then DO NOT use Debian or
    other Debian based distributions (Ubuntu, Mint, etc). Alternatively, try Red hat
    based or SUSE based distributions (CentOS, Fedora, OpenSUSE, SLE, etc). They
    already have tigervnc and can work pretty well.

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> Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2015 21:59:05 +0100 
> Subject: Re: Bug&776746: gnome-session: GNOME crashes during a remote 
> desktop access 
> From: ola at inguza.com 
> To: smcv at debian.org 
> CC: ljlzjzm at hotmail.com; 776746 at bugs.debian.org; 
> tightvncserver at packages.debian.org; vnc4server at packages.debian.org 
> 
> Hi 
> 
> Vnc4 will most likely not be fixed. It is not maintained by upstream. 
> Most likely this will not be fixed by Tightvnc either, even though it 
> is maintained at least somewhat better. 
> Help is much appreciated. 
> 
> // Ola 
> 
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 10:15 PM, Simon McVittie 
> <smcv at debian.org<mailto:smcv at debian.org>> wrote: 
> severity 776746 normal 
> clone 776746 -2 -3 -4 
> retitle 776746 gnome-session: "Oh no! Something has gone wrong" when 
> used under Xvnc 
> reassign -2 tightvncserver 1.3.9-6.5 
> retitle -2 tightvncserver: no support for Composite extension as 
> required by GNOME 3, Compiz, etc. 
> reassign -3 vnc4server 4.1.1+X4.3.0-37.4 
> retitle -3 vnc4server: no support for Composite extension as required 
> by GNOME 3, Compiz, etc. 
> severity -4 wishlist 
> retitle -4 gnome-session: please give clearer GUI message for missing 
> Xserver features 
> block 776746 by -2 -3 650394 
> affects 776746 + xrdp 
> 
> On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 at 19:25:54 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote: 
>> This is all very unfortunate, but I don't see any way it can change 
>> for Debian 8, and I don't think it should be considered a release-critical 
>> bug in GNOME. 
> 
> Niels in the release team doesn't think so either, so I'm downgrading 
> this, and cloning similarly non-RC bugs to the VNC implementations 
> as he suggested. 
> 
> Regards, 
> S 
> 
> 
> 
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