Bug#240111: gdm: 2.4.4.7 breaks sessions

Josselin Mouette Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>, 240111@bugs.debian.org
Tue, 30 Mar 2004 19:05:03 +0200


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Le mar 30/03/2004 =E0 18:54, Ryan Murray a =E9crit :
> And shouldn't be.  It's only six packages to delete sessions scripts from=
, and
> instead use desktop files, which gets everyone using the same Xsession, w=
hich
> is a good thing.

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.

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.

> > snippet for the init script to automatically convert them from the old
> > to the new format. Just apply the attached patches. One is for the code=
,
>=20
> Why are you adding patches to closed bugs?

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.
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