Bug#1004522: debian-policy: Proposing new virtual packages: wayland-session, x-session
On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 02:18:51PM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Jan 2022 at 20:12:21 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> > I propose this entry for virtual-package-names-list.yaml:
> >
> > - name: wayland-session
> > description: a Wayland desktop session (/usr/share/wayland-sessions/*.desktop)
>
> Having looked more closely at display managers, I think we should also
> consider adding:
>
> So I think x-display-manager implementations in category 2 should be
> depending on [their preferred session] | wayland-session | x-session
> (omitting wayland-session if they are X11-only), perhaps with
> x-session-manager as an additional alternative for backwards compatibility.
For X at least, the X session might be running on a different host so
requiring a x-session package to be installed locally is not helpful.
Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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