[Bug 1879131] [NEW] Relax the dependency of gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons from Depends to Recommends

[Amr Ibrahim]

Public bug reported:

I would like to be able to remove the gnome-shell-extension-desktop-
icons without removing ubuntu-desktop.

GNOME shell extensions are sometimes buggy, in this case desktop-icons,
and I consider the desktop-icons extension an enhancement to the
desktop, not a necessity, because no other functionality or packages
depend on its behaviour, and there is no loss of data or breakage of
another functionality after removing it.

So changing the dependency to a Recommends would allow the extension to
be installed by default and be removed without removing ubuntu-desktop.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: ubuntu-desktop 1.450
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-29.33-generic 5.4.30
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-29-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun May 17 09:48:49 2020
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-04-26 (20 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200423)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubuntu-meta
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug focal

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Title:
  Relax the dependency of gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons from
  Depends to Recommends

Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I would like to be able to remove the gnome-shell-extension-desktop-
  icons without removing ubuntu-desktop.

  GNOME shell extensions are sometimes buggy, in this case desktop-
  icons, and I consider the desktop-icons extension an enhancement to
  the desktop, not a necessity, because no other functionality or
  packages depend on its behaviour, and there is no loss of data or
  breakage of another functionality after removing it.

  So changing the dependency to a Recommends would allow the extension
  to be installed by default and be removed without removing ubuntu-
  desktop.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
  Package: ubuntu-desktop 1.450
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-29.33-generic 5.4.30
  Uname: Linux 5.4.0-29-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Sun May 17 09:48:49 2020
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-04-26 (20 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200423)
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm-256color
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-meta
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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