[Bug 1920412] Re: update-notifier should not depend on gnome-shell

[Steve Langasek]

update-notifier depends on gnome-shell | notification-daemon because
this is what it integrates with.  Without one of these selected in
advance, the default will be pulled in.  Gnome-shell is the preferred
implementation, so it's correct for update-notifier to depend on it as
the first alternative.  And ubuntu-mate-desktop depends on mate-
notification-daemon, so it's unclear to me why gnome-shell would be
selected instead.  This is also unreproducible for me in a minimal
hirsute environment.

** Changed in: update-notifier (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  update-notifier should not depend on gnome-shell

Status in update-notifier package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  The update-notifier package should not depend on gnome-shell, this
  wrong dependency forces gnome-shell to be installed on fresh minimal
  system while running `sudo apt-get install ubuntu-mate-desktop` on it.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 21.04
  Package: update-notifier 3.192.40
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.11.0-11.12-generic 5.11.0
  Uname: Linux 5.11.0-11-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu60
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
  CurrentDesktop: MATE
  Date: Fri Mar 19 22:48:30 2021
  SourcePackage: update-notifier
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to hirsute on 2021-02-21 (26 days ago)

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