It seems that missing zenity command won't make metacity fault. Temporarily, a better solution is to install a virtual package (with "Provides: zenity") by users themselves. So I thinks metacity needn't fix this issue actually!
** Changed in: metacity (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to metacity in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1535184 Title: Is it reasonable to move "zenity" from "Depends:" to "Recommends:" for metacity package? Status in metacity package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Actually metacity don't really depend on "zenity" package. I want to install metacity and purge zenity because zenity depends on too much heavy packages like aspell, dictionaries-common, libwebkit- gtk-3, libgstreams-0.. which are very and very big. So is it possible to move "zenity" in "DEBIAN/control" file from "Depends" to "Recommends" ? For most developers, long-time regardless of Metacity makes metacity dependencies too unreasonable... ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: metacity 1:3.18.1-1ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.3.0-5.16-generic 4.3.3 Uname: Linux 4.3.0-5-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.19.3-0ubuntu3 Architecture: amd64/armhf CurrentDesktop: GNOME-Flashback:Unity Date: Mon Jan 18 13:16:18 2016 SourcePackage: metacity UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/metacity/+bug/1535184/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp