[Bug 710171] Re: gnome3-session is not installable as gnome-shell doesn't exist

[Martin Pitt]

As I mentioned in the merge proposal, we unfortunately can't remove a
binary package from a release.

Marking fixed for oneiric, as gnome3-session is gone there.

** Changed in: gnome-session (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Fix Released

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Title:
  gnome3-session is not installable as gnome-shell doesn't exist

Status in “gnome-session” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: gnome3-session

  $ sudo apt-get install gnome3-session
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
  requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
  distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
  or been moved out of Incoming.
  The following information may help to resolve the situation:

  The following packages have unmet dependencies.
   gnome3-session : Depends: gnome-shell but it is not installable
  E: Broken packages

  $ sudo apt-get install gnome-shell 
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  Package gnome-shell is not available, but is referred to by another package.
  This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
  is only available from another source

  E: Package 'gnome-shell' has no installation candidate

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: gnome3-session (not installed)
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-1.28-generic 2.6.38-rc2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-1-generic i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Sun Jan 30 13:47:39 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
   LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: gnome-session