[pkg-cinnamon] Bug#859922: unblock: cinnamon-screensaver/3.2.13-3

Margarita Manterola marga at debian.org
Sun Apr 9 10:18:09 UTC 2017


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

Please unblock package cinnamon-screensaver

The latest upload includes the following fixes that I'd like to see included in
stretch:

cinnamon-screensaver (3.2.13-3) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Import upstream's commit f579336 to allow users to select text in the
    password text entry. Mostly used for selecting all text and re-entering the
    password.
  * Import upstream's commits 29bd6e6 and f3c3d0f to ensure that the screensaver
    is started and the screen locked before the machine goes into
    suspend/hibernate.

 -- Margarita Manterola <marga at debian.org>  Sun, 02 Apr 2017 13:24:49 +0200

The first change is a small but quite annoying UX issue. A lot of users have
the habit of pressing Ctrl-A to select everything and start again when they
realize that the password was wrong.  Without this patch, that's not possible.

The second change is larger, but is also quite important as it's addressing a
security issue, without it, it's possible that the screensaver hasn't locked
the screen when the machine suspends, which means that on un-suspend, the
screen is visible for a brief moment (usually 1 second) until the screensaver
activates.

I'm attaching the full debdiff, as well as the separate files for the patches
for easier reviewing.

unblock cinnamon-screensaver/3.2.13-3

-- 
Thanks,
Marga
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