mutter should depend on gnome-settings-daemon-schemas

gnome-shell already depends on gnome-settings-daemon. How are you running mutter?

It is possible to use mutter without gnome-shell. I.e. start a GNOME Flashback session and run “mutter --replace”.

Do people do that?

I can’t tell for sure, but adding one dependency line isn’t a big problem, is it?

Ok, I had mutter depend on gnome-settings-daemon (which in Ubuntu depends on the split-out schemas) in my packaging and the Debian packaging. Except for GNOME 3.24, Ubuntu's mutter is in sync with Debian.

This bug was fixed in the package mutter - 3.24.2-0ubuntu1

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mutter (3.24.2-0ubuntu1) artful; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release (LP: #1690173)
  * Add missing depends on gnome-settings-daemon (LP: #1561706)
  * Drop git-conform-actor-graph-Add-missing-null-termination.patch,
    applied in new release

 -- Jeremy Bicha <email address hidden> Sat, 06 May 2017 08:52:03 -0400

Hello Dmitry, or anyone else affected,

Accepted mutter into zesty-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mutter/3.24.2-0ubuntu0.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-zesty to verification-done-zesty. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-zesty. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

The dependency was really added.

For the future: please also mention the version number of the package tested whenever verifying a bug. It's generally not enough to just say: "it's good".

This bug was fixed in the package mutter - 3.24.2-0ubuntu0.1

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mutter (3.24.2-0ubuntu0.1) zesty; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release (LP: #1690173)
  * debian/rules:
    - Run build tests, but don't fail the build for test failure on s390x
  * debian/control.in:
    - Build-depend on xauth and xfvb for build tests
    - Depend on gnome-settings-daemon (LP: #1561706)
  * Add debian/patches/skip-failing-tests.patch:
    - Don't run a few tests that have been reported as failing

 -- Jeremy Bicha <email address hidden> Mon, 22 May 2017 20:00:53 -0400

The verification of the Stable Release Update for mutter has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.