Bug#240265: marked as done (gdm: in gdm.conf, Welcome= is unable to deal with special characters)

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From: Mathieu Roy <yeupou@coleumes.org>
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Subject: gdm: in gdm.conf, Welcome= is unable to deal with special
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Package: gdm
Version: 2.4.1.7-1
Severity: minor

Hello,

In gdm.conf, it is not possible to have a Welcome= banner with
characters like é or «, and that's a bit annoying.

I tried to escape characters with antislash or quotes, without
success.

Regards,



-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.25
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.ISO-8859-1, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.ISO-8859-1

Versions of packages gdm depends on:
ii  adduser             3.51                 Add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf             1.4.16               Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                1.10.20              Package maintenance system for Deb
ii  libart-2.0-2        2.3.16-1             Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0         1.4.1-1              The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libaudiofile0       0.2.6-3              Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libbonobo2-0        2.4.3-1              Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0      2.4.3-2              The Bonobo UI library
ii  libbz2-1.0          1.0.2-1              A high-quality block-sorting file 
ii  libc6               2.3.2.ds1-11         GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libesd0             0.2.29-1             Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
ii  libgconf2-4         2.4.0.1-4            GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgcrypt1          1.1.12-4             LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglade2-0         2.0.1-6              Library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0        2.2.3-1              The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0         2.4.0-4              The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0   2.4.0-1              A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0        2.4.0.1-5            The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0      2.4.1-5              The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnomevfs2-common 2.4.1-5              The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnutls7          0.8.12-5             GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii  libgsf-1            1.8.2-6              Structured File Library - runtime 
ii  libgtk2.0-0         2.2.4-3              The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libjpeg62           6b-9                 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  liborbit2           1:2.8.3-2            libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpam-modules      0.76-15              Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime      0.76-15              Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g            0.76-15              Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpango1.0-0       1.2.5-2.1            Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0            1.7-4                lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  librsvg2-2          2.5.0-2              SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libtasn1-0          0.1.2-1              Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  libwrap0            7.6-ipv6.1-3         Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libxml2             2.6.7-1              GNOME XML library
ii  xlibs               4.3.0-0ds2.0.0woody2 X Window System client libraries
ii  zlib1g              1:1.2.1-5            compression library - runtime

-- debconf information:
  gdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/gdm
* shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm


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Source: gdm
Source-Version: 2.6.0.3-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
gdm, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

gdm_2.6.0.3-1.diff.gz
  to pool/main/g/gdm/gdm_2.6.0.3-1.diff.gz
gdm_2.6.0.3-1.dsc
  to pool/main/g/gdm/gdm_2.6.0.3-1.dsc
gdm_2.6.0.3-1_i386.deb
  to pool/main/g/gdm/gdm_2.6.0.3-1_i386.deb
gdm_2.6.0.3.orig.tar.gz
  to pool/main/g/gdm/gdm_2.6.0.3.orig.tar.gz



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 240265@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
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Ryan Murray <rmurray@debian.org> (supplier of updated gdm package)

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Format: 1.7
Date: Tue,  6 Jul 2004 22:42:12 -0700
Source: gdm
Binary: gdm
Architecture: i386 source 
Version: 2.6.0.3-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Ryan Murray <rmurray@debian.org>
Changed-By: Ryan Murray <rmurray@debian.org>
Description: 
 gdm        - GNOME Display Manager
Closes: 176652 222601 240265 241607 250755 251144 255516 256322
Changes: 
 gdm (2.6.0.3-1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream release (closes: #255516, #222601, #241607, #250755, #240265)
   * Fix typo in prerm script (closes: #251144)
   * Don't fail in the postinst if debconf calls do (closes: #176652)
   * Add Build-Depends on libxt-dev (closes: #256322)
   * Relibtoolize.
Files: 
 1850193b11c59387ca7b13efe5cfc633 2923526 gnome optional gdm_2.6.0.3-1_i386.deb
 228143f63f0b18a535066e4b71847c79 5192718 gnome optional gdm_2.6.0.3.orig.tar.gz
 f0aa58065eee8ede8c35a9628637b542 720 gnome optional gdm_2.6.0.3-1.dsc
 c51b1b0136d5543f2b1dc50e0a2d2d1f 172542 gnome optional gdm_2.6.0.3-1.diff.gz

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