On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 12:42:15PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-06-23 at 17:22 +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 02:46:01PM +0200, Jiří Eischmann wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > after the last update in F26 my wallpaper disappeared. Indeed all of
> > > them, but the default one were gone from /usr/share/backgrounds/gnome.
> > > When I investigated why, I found out that the default set of wallpapers
> > > was plit into gnome-backgrounds and gnome-backgrounds-extras. gnome-
> > > backgrounds now only include the default wallpaper, everything else is
> > > in *-extras.
> > >
> > > First I have no idea why this change was made. Can anyone explain it to
> > > me?
> > >
> > > Second it brings two problems:
> > > 1. until gnome-backgrounds-extras is added to the list of pre-installed
> > > packages we will only have two wallpapers pre-installed (GNOME default,
> > > Fedora default), that's kinda too few.
> >
> > gnome-backgrounds and gnome-backgrounds-extra should have Obsoletes: gnome-backgrounds < 3.24.0-1
> >
> > > 2. the transition is not handled very well, wallpapers are removed from
> > > gnome-backgrounds, but gnome-backgrounds-extras don't get installed. So
> > > many users lose wallpapers they've set and end up with a blank desktop
> > > wondering what has happened.
> >
> > gnome-backgrounds should have Recommends: gnome-backgrounds-extra = %{version}-%{release}
>
> Um, those recommendations seem to be the wrong way around, if anything?
> Your *first* suggestion would fix problem #2: adding those obsoletes
> would cause both packages to be installed on update of an existing
> system with the old, 'combined' gnome-backgrounds. Your *second*
> suggestion is not also necessary to solve problem #2...
Yeah, sorry, I switched them.
But I think both make sense: we generally *do* want the -extra backgrounds
to be installed, they add value to the default installation.
Zbyszek
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