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[Tim Lunn <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The bzr branch is the source for generating the meta package (vanilla-
gnome-desktop)

The source package ubuntu-gnome-meta, has an 'update' script that reads
the seed from bzr and generates the package lists that are used by
germinate to produce the final meta packages.

So the basic process is
1. Update bzr branch
2. pull-lp-source ubuntu-gnome-meta 
3. For testing update the bzr branch in update.cfg
4. Run the './update' script in ubuntu-gnome-meta
5. Build package as per normal (dpkg-buildpackage or sbuild or PPA etc)

To split the desktop seed,
- You would create a new file in the bzr repo and move all the core deps into it (or probably easier to rename desktop to core, then move the apps into a new desktop file)
- You would need to update the SUPPORTED File in the seed bzr repo, to include the new core seed and have desktop depend on it
- You would need to add a new package for the core seed in debian/control in ubuntu-gnome-meta

Maybe take a look at some of the other flavours, pretty sure lubuntu did
a similar split in the past.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1764596

Title:
  vanilla-gnome-desktop dependencies too strict

Status in ubuntu-gnome-meta package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Since the vanilla-gnome-desktop package lists a number of GNOME
  desktop apps (Contacts, Calendar, Todo, etc) as Depends, people who
  want a stock upstrem GNOME experience on Ubuntu but also use Flatpak
  to receive updates for their applications are forced to either install
  and manage duplicates of these applications, or uninstall vanilla-
  gnome-desktop, breaking future upgrades.

  It would be good to either drop these application packages to
  Recommends (while keeping important infrastructure such as Software
  and Shell) so they can at least be uninstalled without also
  uninstalling vanilla-gnome-desktop, or moved to a separate package
  (vanilla-gnome-apps?) which could Depend on vanilla-gnome-desktop and
  be listed in the Recommends for it.

  Either way, for end users who don't care about Flatpak (or Snaps) the
  experience should be the same since installing Recommends is the
  default.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
  Package: vanilla-gnome-desktop 0.83
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-13.14-generic 4.15.10
  Uname: Linux 4.15.0-13-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu5
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: GNOME
  Date: Tue Apr 17 11:47:15 2018
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-07-22 (1000 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Release amd64 (20150422)
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-gnome-meta
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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