Bug#240111: gdm: 2.4.4.7 breaks sessions

[Ryan Murray]

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On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 07:05:03PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le mar 30/03/2004 ? 18:54, Ryan Murray a ?crit :
> > And shouldn't be.  It's only six packages to delete sessions scripts fr=
om, and
> > instead use desktop files, which gets everyone using the same Xsession,=
 which
> > is a good thing.
>=20
> Converting the old sessions doesn't prevent from migrating the packages.
> This is a measure to prevent breakage, especially when we are at the
> beginning of a freeze.

This creates breakage; you now have two scripts setting up the session
environment, and as they both will perform user mod map entries, this can
render the keyboard broken.  We also _aren't_ frozen yet, and the six packa=
ges
affected by this can upgrade to do this properly.

> Furthermore, if you break packages, you must conflict with the older
> versions of those packages, so that GDM is not upgraded until all
> packages use the new scheme.

I don't conflict with them.  I work perfectly well with them, through the
default session, if they are what the system Xsession will pick up.

> Because closing a bug in the BTS is not sufficient to solve the problem.
> BTW, these pat)ches also solve #240991 which is an *open* RC bug.

They don't *solve* anything.  They create a mess that I'll have to debug in
bug reports down the road.  This isn't a bug in gdm, it's a change in the
way it works, and other packages need to change to work with it.  Bugs have
already been filed for that.

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Ryan Murray, Debian Developer (rmurray@cyberhqz.com, rmurray@debian.org)
The opinions expressed here are my own.

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