Re: Gnome 48 dependency on Xwayland

To: Stephan Verbücheln <verbuecheln@posteo.de>
Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Gnome 48 dependency on Xwayland
From: Jeremy Bícha <jeremy.bicha@canonical.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2025 10:27:06 -0500
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On Wed, Feb 26, 2025 at 10:10 AM Stephan Verbücheln
<verbuecheln@posteo.de> wrote:
> According to reports and changelogs, Gnome 48 should be working without
> Xwayland.
>
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/-/blob/main/NEWS
>
> Can you remove the package dependency in Debian?

No. We are not going to build GNOME for Trixie without support for
Xorg. That may be useful for kiosks but is not useful in a general
purpose OS like Debian at this time.

Also, please report a bug for this kind of packaging suggested change
instead of emailing this list.
https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha

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