[pkg-cinnamon] Bug#857543: unblock: cinnamon-screensaver/3.2.13-2

Margarita Manterola marga at debian.org
Sun Mar 12 11:56:34 UTC 2017


Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian.org at packages.debian.org
Usertags: unblock

Please unblock package cinnamon-screensaver, in order to fix important bug:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=853064

Version 3.2 of the cinnamon-screensaver is a complete re-write of the
screensaver. Previous versions used a file called "cinnamon-screensaver-dialog"
to show the actual password dialog, while the current version has the password
dialog integrated.

What this means is that for users that are upgrading from a version before 3.2
while running cinnamon-screensaver, they are no longer able to unlock the screen
until they restart the screensaver.

Current users of stretch have most likely already been hit by this (unless they
don't upgrade very often) and have dealt with it, but users of stable will be
hit by this when they upgrade to stretch.

The 3.2.13-2 version includes a transition script, located in the same path as
the old binary, that detects that it's been called and automatically restarts
the screensaver.

I'm attaching the debdiff to the current version in unstable/testing, as well as
the script itself (for easier reviewing).  I haven't made the upload yet, please
let me know if it's ok for me to do this upload, thanks.

unblock cinnamon-screensaver/3.2.13-2

-- 
Thanks,
Marga
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