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Bug#1004522: debian-policy: Proposing new virtual packages: wayland-session, x-session



Hello,

On Fri 01 Aug 2025 at 12:02pm +02, Matthias Geiger wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Feb 2022 23:04:38 +0000 Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, 18 Feb 2022 at 09:15:24 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
>> > Some time has passed without objections so I would be happy to add these
>> > two virtual packages.  My only concern is that there are going to be
>> > quite a few virtual packages in this area, now, and the virtual packages
>> > list will contain only terse descriptions of each one.  Someone
>> > packaging a new session/display manager/WM might have a hard time
>> > figuring out what to use, unless they happen to stumble across the
>> > discussion in this bug.
>> I'm slightly regretting opening this can of worms now, but here's my
>> best attempt at Policy wording.
>
> Hi,
> thanks for the effort to get this started. The proposed patch reads very well
> to me. Since we have at least 7 wayland compositors in the archive now it is
> IMO high time have wayland-session so users can discover window managers
> easier. While X will be probably be around for quite some time, it is
> effectively not getting any development upstream.
>
> I fully support this proposal, are there any strong objections to get this
> merged ?

There are a few unanswered questions from me in the thread, and you'd
want to second the proposal.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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