Bug#1099769: provides xsession for plasmax11.desktop but no dependency on kwin-x11

[Aurélien COUDERC <libre@coucouf.fr>]

Hi Jonathan.

Le 7 mars 2025 20:10:00 GMT+01:00, Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> a écrit :

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>After installing task-kde-desktop (with apt configured for
>no-install-recommends), I have SDDM and KDE installed. SDDM presents the choice
>of two sessions: KDE and KDE (X11). The latter appears to be due to
>/usr/share/xsessions/plasmax11.desktop which is shipped in plasma-workspace,
>hence filing against that package.

[…]

> This is due to there being no
>dependency between plasma-workplace and kwin-x11.
>
>I note plasma-workspace depends on kwin-wayland, but not kwin-x11.
>
>The bug is presenting a KDE (X11) session as a valid choice if kde-x11 is not
>installed. I'm not sure what the remedy could be.

I see.
I don't have an obvious good solution.
I don't really want to reintroduce kwin-x11 as a hard dependency.

We could ship the desktop file in a separate plasma-workspace-x11 package, have plasma-workspace recommend it and it depend on kwin-x11, but that seems a bit overkill for shipping a single file.


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Aurélien