SRU: Default dependency resolution in Focal pulls in full GNOME Desktop

@SRU team: please accept screen-resolution-extra 0.18.0.21.04.1, 0.18.0.20.10.1, and 0.18.0.20.04.1 into -proposed.

Hello Daniel, or anyone else affected,

Accepted screen-resolution-extra into hirsute-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/screen-resolution-extra/0.18.0.21.04.1 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, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-hirsute to verification-done-hirsute. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-hirsute. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

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

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

Hello Daniel, or anyone else affected,

Accepted screen-resolution-extra into groovy-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/screen-resolution-extra/0.18.0.20.10.1 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, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-groovy to verification-done-groovy. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-groovy. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

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

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

Hello Daniel, or anyone else affected,

Accepted screen-resolution-extra into focal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/screen-resolution-extra/0.18.0.20.04.1 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, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-focal to verification-done-focal. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-focal. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

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

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

Tested in a clean focal chroot. The dependency resolution works as expected, allowing the package to be installed without pulling in all of GNOME, but only if the "universe" repository component is enabled. If I have only "main" enabled, then dependency resolution fails with the following:

# apt install screen-resolution-extra
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 screen-resolution-extra : Depends: policykit-1-gnome but it is not installable or
                                    gnome-shell but it is not going to be installed or
                                    polkit-1-auth-agent
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I'm not sure if there's a reason apt doesn't just fall back to selecting gnome-shell when policykit-1-gnome isn't available, due to being in a disabled repository. Perhaps this might be expected behavior, but since there is a change in behavior compared to how the dependencies were previously set up, I'm not sure if the change is appropriate for an SRU. At least for default desktop installations, I imagine the difference wouldn't be noticeable, since gnome-shell would already be installed.

That is probably the reason why we picked gnome-shell as the first dependency. Packages in main should not depend on packages in universe.

The version of screen-resolution-extra in the proposed pocket of Hirsute that was purported to fix this bug report has been removed because one or more bugs that were to be fixed by the upload have failed verification and been in this state for more than 10 days.

The version of screen-resolution-extra in the proposed pocket of Focal that was purported to fix this bug report has been removed because one or more bugs that were to be fixed by the upload have failed verification and been in this state for more than 10 days.

As it stands this is unlikely to be changed. By default universe is enabled. This can be verified or added with the following command:

sudo add-apt-repository universe

Output:
'universe' distribution component is already enabled for all sources.

I have tried the below steps i.e

1. Install Ubuntu 20.04
2. Enable the universe repository by #sudo add-apt-repository universe (I noticed that this was already
        enabled)
3. Install cuda drivers
4. Reboot

With this, I still see that the GUI is loading.

Hi,

Can you please tell us what is the recommended fix for the issue?

Hi,

I have tried the below steps i.e

1. Install Ubuntu 20.04
2. Enable the universe repository by #sudo add-apt-repository universe (I noticed that this was already
        enabled)
3. Install cuda drivers using the --no-install-recommendations options i.e apt install -y --no-install-
   recommends cuda
4. Reboot

With this, I do not see the GUI loading.
Can you please help us with the recommended fix for the same? Any thoughts on the above method tried?

The Hirsute Hippo has reached End of Life, so this bug will not be fixed for that release.