Bug#557590: gdmflexiserver should be split off into a separate package

[Jameson Graef Rollins]

Package: gdm
Severity: minor

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gdmflexiserver is a useful program.  It is also usable and useful on
it's own, and by many other display managers other than gdm.  It's
unfortunate that installation of this package requires installing gdm
and all of it's dependencies, many of which a potential gdmflexiserver
might not want on their system.

I would like to propose that gdmflexiserver be split out into a
separate package that does not itself depend on gdm.  This would open
up the flexiserver for use by many non-gdm users.

Thanks for packaging, and looking forward to a response.

jamie.

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gdm depends on:
ii  adduser                     3.111        add and remove users and groups
ii  awesome [x-window-manager]  3.4-1        highly configurable, next generati
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]       1.5.28       Debian configuration management sy
pn  gksu                        <none>       (no description available)
ii  ion3 [x-window-manager]     20080825-1   tiling tabbed window manager desig
ii  libart-2.0-2                2.3.20-2     Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0                 1.28.0-1     The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libattr1                    1:2.4.44-1   Extended attribute shared library
ii  libc6                       2.10.1-7     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                   1.8.8-2      The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3                 1.2.16-2     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2            0.82-2       simple interprocess messaging syst
pn  libdmx1                     <none>       (no description available)
ii  libfontconfig1              2.6.0-4      generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6                2.3.11-1     FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libglade2-0                 1:2.6.4-1    library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.22.2-2     The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0           2.26.0-1     A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgtk2.0-0                 2.18.3-1     The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libpam-modules              1.1.0-4      Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime              1.1.0-4      Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g                    1.1.0-4      Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpango1.0-0               1.26.0-1     Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  librsvg2-2                  2.26.0-1     SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  librsvg2-common             2.26.0-1     SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libselinux1                 2.0.88-1     SELinux runtime shared libraries
ii  libwrap0                    7.6.q-18     Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libx11-6                    2:1.2.2-1    X11 client-side library
ii  libxau6                     1:1.0.5-1    X11 authorisation library
ii  libxdmcp6                   1:1.0.2-3    X11 Display Manager Control Protoc
ii  libxext6                    2:1.0.4-1    X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxi6                      2:1.2.1-2    X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1                2:1.0.3-2    X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxml2                     2.7.6.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library
ii  lsb-base                    3.2-23       Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  matchbox-window-manager [x- 1.2-4        window manager for resource-limite
ii  mrxvt [x-terminal-emulator] 0.5.4-1      lightweight multi-tabbed X termina
ii  rxvt-unicode [x-terminal-em 9.06-2       RXVT-like terminal emulator with U
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulator] 250-1        X terminal emulator

Versions of packages gdm recommends:
ii  dialog                    1.1-20080819-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
pn  gdm-themes                <none>         (no description available)
ii  whiptail                  0.52.10-4.1    Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii  xnest                     2:1.6.5-1      Nested X server
ii  xserver-xorg              1:7.4+4        the X.Org X server
pn  zenity                    <none>         (no description available)

Versions of packages gdm suggests:
pn  libpam-gnome-keyring          <none>     (no description available)
ii  locales                       2.10.1-7   GNU C Library: National Language (
ii  pm-utils                      1.2.5-4    utilities and scripts for power ma

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