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340. By Jeremy Bícha on 2016-08-18

releasing package gnome-session version 3.18.1.2-1ubuntu1.16.04.2

339. By Gunnar Hjalmarsson on 2016-08-18

* debian/patches/dont_override_IM_variables.patch:
  - Honor values set by e.g. im-config, and with that give the users
    the option to use fcitx or other framework (LP: #1594681).

338. By Iain Lane on 2016-05-13

releasing package gnome-session version 3.18.1.2-1ubuntu1.16.04.1

337. By Iain Lane on 2016-05-13

* debian/patches/export_env_to_upstart.patch:
  - Export environment variables to upstart as well, if available (LP: #1433013)

336. By Iain Lane on 2016-05-13

Update Vcs-Bzr for 16.04

335. By Tim Lunn on 2015-11-11

* Merge from Debian unstable. Remaining changes (LP: #1512914):
  - debian/control.in:
    + Recommend session-migration
    + Remove gnome-shell circular dep to ease uprades
  - Split ubuntu-session out of gnome-session.
  - Split wayland session into gnome-session-wayland
    + control.in: add gnome-session-wayland package and depend on xwayland
    + gnome-session-wayland.install: install wayland session
  - Add upstart user session
  - debian/gnome-session-bin.postinst, debian/gnome-session-bin.prerm:
     Moved registering gnome-session binary as a session manager to
     gnome-session-bin package
  - don't install defaults.list (installed by desktop-file-utils in ubuntu):
    debian/gnome-session-common.dirs and gnome-session-common.install
  - debian/patches/13_display_session_properties.patch: Display
    session-properties as the Startup Applications capplet was removed from
    gnome-control-center, which makes it hard to discover the
    gnome-session-properties tool. (Closes: #683814)
  - debian/patches/22_support_autostart_delay.patch:
     Bugzilla patch to support adding a delay to autostart apps, using
     a "X-GNOME-Autostart-Delay" key in the desktop file
  - debian/patches/50_ubuntu_sessions.patch:
     + Add Ubuntu session
     + gnome-shell.desktop adds --session=gnome now that the "ubuntu" session
       is the default. Use TryExec to test if gnome-shell is installed.
  - debian/patches/51_remove_session_saving_from_gui.patch:
     add GNOME_SESSION_SAVE environment variable for people wanting to
     use the save session still, knowing that it can break your system
     if used unwisely
  - debian/patches/53_add_sessionmigration.patch, debian/control:
    recommends and launch the session-migration if present at the start of
    the session. This sync tool is running different session migration
    scripts that can be provided in various desktop packages.
  - debian/patches/95_dbus_request_shutdown.patch: Add "RequestShutdown" and
    "RequestReboot" DBus methods to allow other applications to shutdown or
    reboot the machine via the session manager.
  - debian/patches/103_kill_the_fail_whale.patch: Kill the Fail Whale as it
    tends to be more annoying than helpful
  - debian/patches/revert_remove_gnome_session_properties.patch: Keep the
    session-properties applet for ubuntu sessions
* New upstream release.
* Update Build-Depends as per configure.ac:
  - Bump libglib2.0-dev to (>= 2.46.0). (Closes: #801736)
  - Bump libgtk-3-dev to (>= 3.18.0).
  - Bump libgnome-desktop-3-dev to (>= 3.18.0).
* New upstream release (identical to 3.17.92).
* Upload to unstable.
* Drop obsolete Breaks, Conflicts and Replaces from pre-wheezy.
* Drop obsolete Provides: gnome3-session since there are no more reverse
  dependencies.
* Update README.Debian, the package for the metacity/gnome-panel based
  fallback session is called "gnome-session-flashback".
* New upstream release candidate.

334. By Robert Ancell on 2015-07-28

* debian/patches/50_ubuntu_sessions.patch:
  - Drop X-LightDM-DesktopName fields now we have the standard DesktopNames

333. By Daniel Holbach on 2015-06-08

* Merge from Debian unstable. Remaining changes:
  - debian/control.in:
    + Recommend session-migration
    + don't depend on xwayland
    + Remove gnome-shell circular dep to ease uprades
  - Split ubuntu-session out of gnome-session.
  - Add upstart user session
  - debian/gnome-session-bin.postinst, debian/gnome-session-bin.prerm:
     Moved registering gnome-session binary as a session manager to
     gnome-session-bin package
  - don't install defaults.list (installed by desktop-file-utils in ubuntu):
    debian/gnome-session-common.dirs and gnome-session-common.install
  - debian/patches/22_support_autostart_delay.patch:
     Bugzilla patch to support adding a delay to autostart apps, using
     a "X-GNOME-Autostart-Delay" key in the desktop file
  - debian/patches/50_ubuntu_sessions.patch:
     + Add Ubuntu session
     + gnome-shell.desktop adds --session=gnome now that the "ubuntu" session
       is the default. Use TryExec to test if gnome-shell is installed.
  - debian/patches/51_remove_session_saving_from_gui.patch:
     add GNOME_SESSION_SAVE environment variable for people wanting to
     use the save session still, knowing that it can break your system
     if used unwisely
  - debian/patches/52_xdg_current_desktop.patch:
    Set XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP inside gnome-session based on a new key
    'DesktopName' in gnome-session .desktop files.
  - debian/patches/53_add_sessionmigration.patch, debian/control:
    recommends and launch the session-migration if present at the start of
    the session. This sync tool is running different session migration
    scripts that can be provided in various desktop packages.
  - debian/patches/95_dbus_request_shutdown.patch: Add "RequestShutdown" and
    "RequestReboot" DBus methods to allow other applications to shutdown or
    reboot the machine via the session manager.
  - debian/patches/103_kill_the_fail_whale.patch: Kill the Fail Whale as it
    tends to be more annoying than helpful
  - debian/gnome-session-bin.user-session.upstart: Disable acceleration check
    when launching a GNOME Flashback (Metacity) session.
  - Split wayland session into gnome-session-wayland
    + control.in: add gnome-session-wayland package and depend on xwayland
    + gnome-session-wayland.install: install wayland session
* New upstream release.
  - Adds new --disable-acceleration-check option (closes: #771513).
* Drop 0001-configure.ac-Add-support-for-new-versions-of-systemd.patch,
  applied upstream.
* Upstream has disabled support for consolekit even on non-systemd
  systems with this release. We follow upstream and do not enable it
  forcefully. Please file a bug if you think this change is wrong.
  - Drop libdbus-glib-1-dev build-dependency, it is now only used by
    consolekit support code.
  - Drop consolekit recommends from gnome-session-bin.
* Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.6, no changes needed.

332. By Robert Ancell on 2015-05-20

* debian/50-ubuntu.conf:
  - Use new [Seat:*] section instead of deprecated [SeatDefaults]
    (LP: #1456449)

331. By Iain Lane on 2015-05-18

releasing package gnome-session version 3.14.0-3ubuntu1