[Bug 1396851] Re: [needs-packaging] Add package containing Unity Greeter badges

[Graham Inggs]

@Daniel:  Yes, I'll do that soon.  It should probably go via
experimental and then I'll sync that into Ubuntu.

@Doug: In debian/control you have:

Depends: ${misc:Depends}, unity-greeter

Is the dependency on unity-greeter the correct way around?  I think ultimately you would want unity-greeter to depend or recommend unity-greeter-badges.  If you removed this dependency then this package *could* be uploaded to Debian (as it would no longer depend on a package that didn't exist in Debian), although I realize it wouldn't be very useful there.
I'm just not clear on how much submitting new packages through Debian is the preferred path.

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Title:
  [needs-packaging] Add package containing Unity Greeter badges

Status in unity-greeter package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  Currently, only a small number of potential desktops have badges
  shipped with Unity Greeter.  Other desktops are supposed to ship their
  own [1].  However, some desktop packagers would prefer not to do this.
  For example, the MATE packagers would prefer to keep the packages the
  same in Debian and Ubuntu, and therefore would like to avoid an
  Ubuntu-specific patch like adding a Unity Greeter badge [2].

  One solution, which would keep these badges both out of the unity-
  greeter package and out of the various desktop packages, would be to
  package the badges available at [3] together in a single package.  I
  am an experienced Debian maintainer and plan to create such a package
  soon.

  [1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2012-February/034800.html
  [2] https://code.launchpad.net/~profzoom/ubuntu/vivid/mate-session-manager/mate-session-manager-fix-1393010/+merge/241874
  [3] http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/?content=158764

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