gnome-session-properties icons and .desktop file should be moved to gnome-session-bin

Bug #1622772 reported by Nazar Mokrynskyi
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gnome-session (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

gnome-session-bin package includes gnome-session-properties binary.
However, gnome-session-properties's .desktop file and icons are all in gnome-session-common, which is the only reason I have gnome-session-common installed in my system.

So I think those files should be restructured differently, possibly, moved to gnome-session-bin package.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report, the purpose of -common packages is to ship files that are identic on different architectures (sparing mirror space since that way they are in 1 common archive rather than included 1 time for each build) ... what's your issue with having that -common installed?

Changed in gnome-session (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
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Nazar Mokrynskyi (nazar-pc) wrote :

My issue is only to keep system clean. There are some components in my system that depend on gnome-session-bin, but not gnome-session-common. And I'm trying to decrease number of manually installed packages to bare minimum. Stuff in gnome-session-common are really tiny and I see no practical benefit in having them separated.

Probably, better option might be to add a recommended dependency on gnome-session-common in gnome-session-bin. There is no big technical problems, it just doesn't feel clean enough.

Just to mention, for me gnome-session-properties does not feel required in gnome-session-bin either, so perfect solution for me would be to have gnome-session-properties package with everything necessary inside.

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