Comment 0 for bug 1685414

This is an abbreviated MIR since gnome-settings-daemon was in Ubuntu since the beginning (therefore there was no MIR before) until it was replaced by unity-settings-daemon, a fork of gnome-settings-daemon 3.6 (?). The intent now is to replace unity-settings-daemon in main with gnome-settings-daemon.

At least for now, I expect unity-settings-daemon to remain in universe in case it's useful for attempts to keep Unity going. On the other hand, that's a pain since the gsettings schemas can't be forked, so there is a lot of patching to keep schemas around since unity-control-center has not kept up with gnome-settings-daemon at all.

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The last time gnome-settings-daemon was merged with Debian was 3.22:

    + Split out schemas into gnome-settings-daemon-schemas so
      unity-settings-daemon can use them
    + debian/control.in:
      - Build-depend on accountsservice
      - Bump breaks/replaces for moving files to the -schemas pkg
    + debian/patches:
       - 05_disable_corner_tapping.patch:
          Disable corner tapping when disabling tap to click
       - 45_suppress-printer-may-not-be-connected-notification.patch
       - 53_sync_input_sources_to_accountsservice.patch
       - 64_restore_terminal_keyboard_shortcut_schema.patch
       - correct_logout_action.patch
          display the logout action on ctrl-alt-del
       - ubuntu-lid-close-suspend.patch
          Reimplement support for setting lid close suspend actions
       - revert_background_dropping.patch
          Keep gsettings keys background u-s-d needs them
       - revert-gsettings-removals.patch
          Revert gsettings keys that were dropped since 3.8, for u-s-d
    + debian/gnome-settings-daemon-schemas.install:
      - Install schemas, translations and the rfkill rule
    + Don't install gnome-settings-daemon.gsettings-override
    + debian/rules:
      - Dont link with "-Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions",
        this was causing GType mismatches between plugins using
        gsd-device-manager (LP: #1427877)