ubuntu-desktop depends on xscreensaver

[Patrik Pira]

Binary package hint: ubuntu-desktop

Somewhere around Intrepid beta, ubuntu-desktop (currently version 1.118) started depending on xscreensaver packages resulting in multiple screensavers installed. That is gnome-screensaver and xscreensaver.

Is this intentional? In my opinion gnome-screensaver should suffice.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Thanks for your bug report. ubuntu-desktop depends on xscreensaver-data and xscreensaver-gl. These pacakges provide many of the screensavers you see in gnome-screensaver. The problem is that xscreensaver-gl has a recommends on xscreensaver, which has been installed because recommends are now installed by default. I've reassigned this to xscreensaver.

Perhaps the recommends should be dropped to a suggests?

[Patrik Pira (papira)]

System->Preferences->Screensaver is now two icons, one for gnome-screensaver and one for xscreensaver. That is probably the only reason why this bug is important to fix before Intrepid release.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

This is actually a duplicate of bug 242495, and is now fixed.

Thanks