Have gnome-core better match what GNOME says is GNOME Core

This is a big commit so a bit difficult to explain all the changes

Altering the list of dependencies and also permuting the order makes it hard to see what has actually changed here. I think it would be good to have a diff between sorted lists of dependencies.

I've refactored to try to make it easier to follow what's going on. The big resorting is now a separate commit from other moves and changes.

Thanks, that made it a lot easier!

Recommend our preferred web browsers above Epiphany

I personally agree (but see also #772808)

Have a few things as Recommends instead of Depends to make it easier for people to disable those features

All of those sound good to me

gnome-remote-desktop (although currently gnome-control-center has a hard Depends on it because the UI is bad without it)

Yes, I think having the Recommends we ideally want here, and a Depends as a workaround in g-c-c, is a good way to represent this situation

Only suggested gnome-color-manager because I'm thinking it might not be needed in our default install. This does need more investigation and discussion with GNOME upstream.

I don't have an informed opinion on this

I left gnome-music in gnome because we can figure out the music player question separately but it is in GNOME Core

Seems good. We can use !10 or one of the bugs referenced in it as our place to discuss this

I kept eog over loupe and cheese over gnome-snapshot since I think those should be decided separately too

Yeah, if in doubt let's stick with the status quo for now. Are there / should there be bugs open to remind us that these need a decision?

I did not include gnome-tour because I think it conflicts with how we use gnome-initial-setup

You're probably right, let's revisit the gnome-tour/gnome-initial-setup situation for trixie after GNOME 47 has all landed?

I believe there is a conflict between what gnome-core is supposed to be (a Debian implementation of GNOME Core) and what many people want: a minimal GNOME. I think it could be valuable if we create a separate metapackage to help those people. That can be worked on later.

My understanding was that gnome-session (and its Depends and Recommends) is the minimal GNOME.

If people want an opinionated metapackage that is larger than gnome-session but smaller than gnome-core, then yes that's something that could exist.

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a061cb62...49a7196f - 4 earlier commits
27a7640a - Move Recommends: gnome-initial-setup & gnome-remote-desktop to gnome-core
5dc309a6 - Demote rygel* from Depends to Recommends
86df3b6e - Replace gkbd-capplet with tecla
c32c2dc5 - Remove several explicit Depends already pulled in by other core things
9cf37996 - Add alternatives for loupe & gnome-snapshot
9d8b6898 - Add gnome-connections, drop Suggests: vinagre
3d7dd9d7 - shotwell | gnome-photos isn't official so move back to gnome
8fc3d136 - Sort to more closely match the gnome upstream set sorting
11a84025 - Demote gnome-color-manager to Suggests
50c1e780 - Update changelog

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added 12 commits

50c1e780...f1e43507 - 2 earlier commits
0d72ba52 - gnome-core: Demote gnome-color-manager to Suggests
1b207eff - Move Recommends: gnome-initial-setup & gnome-remote-desktop to gnome-core
04f58f61 - Demote rygel* from Depends to Recommends
b3b2d204 - Replace gkbd-capplet with tecla
aca5d7bb - Remove several explicit Depends already pulled in by other core things
70b0b7dc - Add alternatives for loupe & gnome-snapshot
a2101873 - Add gnome-connections, drop Suggests: vinagre
78109dd2 - Sort to more closely match the gnome upstream set sorting
5728509d - Demote gnome-color-manager to Suggests
2b7bedae - Update changelog

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Have gnome-core better match what GNOME says is GNOME Core

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