diff -Nru gnome-session-xmonad-1.0/debian/changelog gnome-session-xmonad-1.0/debian/changelog
--- gnome-session-xmonad-1.0/debian/changelog	2016-07-16 11:55:17.000000000 +0000
+++ gnome-session-xmonad-1.0/debian/changelog	2018-12-31 09:27:36.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+gnome-session-xmonad (1.0-1xenial2) xenial; urgency=medium
+
+  * Make libghc-xmonad-contrib-dev a recommended dependency
+
+ -- Joonas Javanainen <joonas.javanainen@gmail.com>  Mon, 31 Dec 2018 11:27:36 +0200
+
 gnome-session-xmonad (1.0-1xenial1) xenial; urgency=medium
 
   * Make sure gnome-xmonad is listed in /etc/upstart-xsessions. Current Ubuntu
diff -Nru gnome-session-xmonad-1.0/debian/control gnome-session-xmonad-1.0/debian/control
--- gnome-session-xmonad-1.0/debian/control	2016-07-16 11:41:57.000000000 +0000
+++ gnome-session-xmonad-1.0/debian/control	2018-12-31 09:27:13.000000000 +0000
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 Architecture: all
 Depends: gnome-session-flashback,
          xmonad (>= 0.11-9),
-         libghc-xmonad-contrib-dev (>= 0.11.3-3),
          upstart,
          ${misc:Depends}
+Recommends: libghc-xmonad-contrib-dev (>= 0.11.3-3)
 Description: GNOME Session Manager - XMonad session
diff -Nru gnome-session-xmonad-1.0/README.md gnome-session-xmonad-1.0/README.md
--- gnome-session-xmonad-1.0/README.md	2016-04-03 15:37:12.000000000 +0000
+++ gnome-session-xmonad-1.0/README.md	2018-12-31 09:26:54.000000000 +0000
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 ====================
 
 This Ubuntu package contains session files for Gnome + XMonad.  The latest
-xmonad package in Debian/Ubuntu no longer has such session files, so I'm
+xmonad package in Debian/Ubuntu no longer has working session files, so I'm
 maintaining them in this repository. The sessions are simply copies of
 metacity-based sessions from gnome-session-flashback/gnome-session-fallback
 packages with metacity replaced with xmonad.
@@ -22,6 +22,39 @@
     sudo apt-get update
     sudo apt-get install gnome-session-xmonad
 
+This installs the **GNOME + XMonad** session, which can be selected from the
+login screen. Make sure you select the right one, because the list probably has
+other xmonad sessions as well.
+
+These xmonad sessions are unrelated to this package, and are not guaranteed
+to work:
+
+* GNOME Flashback (Xmonad)
+* XMonad
+
+Your xmonad configuration must have the necessary gnome hooks in place.
+In practice things work perfectly if you are using `gnomeConfig` properly in
+your configuration.
+
+Minimal installation (doesn't install GHC)
+------------------------------------------
+
+Like the [Quick Installation](#quick-installation) above, except we avoid
+bringing in Ubuntu's GHC ecosystem:
+
+    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gekkio/xmonad
+    sudo apt-get update
+    sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends gnome-session-xmonad
+
+To be able to compile your `~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs`, you'll probably also want
+to install the X11 packages specified in the 
+[Xmonad README](https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad/blob/master/README.md#building):
+
+    sudo apt-get install libx11-dev libxinerama-dev libxext-dev libxft-dev libxrandr-dev libxss-dev
+
+This minimal installation assumes you already have GHC installed by some
+non-Apt means, e.g. via Stack or a http://haskell.org/ghc tarball.
+
 Supported Ubuntu versions
 -------------------------
 
@@ -29,7 +62,4 @@
 
 + 12.04 Precise (LTS)
 + 14.04 Trusty (LTS)
-+ 14.10 Utopic
-+ 15.04 Vivid
-+ 15.10 Wily
-+ 16.04 Xenial
++ 16.04 Xenial (LTS)