Bug#562646: Why 2.20.x from ages?

[Josselin Mouette]

Le mercredi 17 mars 2010 à 20:28 +0530, Kartik Mistry a écrit :
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 7:59 PM, Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org> wrote:
> >> Why we have 2.20.x versions of GDM from ages. What bug prevents to
> >> package latest GDM?
> >
> > There are countless regressions, which mean it cannot be a drop-in
> > replacement.
> >
> > The package is almost ready, but a very important bug remains (keyboard
> > always defaults to US) and this is what is holding it for the moment.
> 
> Thanks for quick reply. Let me see if I can help (and spread the word, if not!)
> (Is package available somewhere? Experimental?)

Help is welcome, of course. It’s in the pkg-gnome subversion repository,
in the desktop/experimental/gdm3 directory.

Note that you will also need the meta-gnome2 package from the
repository, it hasn’t been uploaded yet.
Once you have built them, the upgrade procedure is:
      * update your metapackages
      * dpkg --remove --force-depends gdm fast-user-switch-applet
      * dpkg -i gdm3_2.28.1-1_amd64.deb

Cheers,
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