Re: 'synaptic' removed from buster

[Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@xxxxxxxxx>]

I just found this Ubuntu announcement from January. 17.03 had picked up wayland. But 18.04 dropped back to X.org.

https://www.neowin.net/news/ubuntu-1804-will-revert-to-long-in-the-tooth-xorg

On Fri, Apr 5, 2019, 4:01 PM Lee <ler762@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 4/5/19, Reco <recoverym4n@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>       Hi.
>
> On Fri, Apr 05, 2019 at 04:01:50PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 12:56:49PM -0000, Curt wrote:
>> > My understanding is the problem lies in the Gnome/Wayland combo (which
>> > is the default combo starting with Buster).
>>
>> The problem there, IMHO, is Wayland being the default desktop choice.
>
> ... on amd64/i386 only. Whenever Wayland is the problem or the solution,
> punishing all other supported architectures seems extreme.

That's what I don't understand.  Why remove the package if it's only a
problem with some desktops?

https://wiki.debian.org/Wayland
Unsupported Desktop environments:
    Cinnamon: discussed
    MATE: planned, source (2014)
    XFCE: planned

Can't [whatever installs the software] notice that Gnome is
installed/selected & not install synaptic?  Or patch synaptic to
realize it's running under Gnome & spit out an error message and quit?

Everybody pays the price because it doesn't work with Gnome seems a bit much.

Lee