Re: gdm3

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 08:56:18 -0500, Tom H wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:57:22 -0500, Tom H wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 19:58:15 +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> With new gdm3 entering testing,
>>>>
>>>> gdm3 has been available in wheezy since time ago...
>>>
>>> That's an unfortunate Debian-induced confusion.
>>>
>>> Squeeze has a GDM that's called "gdm3" and that's version 2.30.
>>>
>>> Since October (AFAIK), sid's had a GDM that's called gdm3 and that's
>>> version 3.0.4. So it must've been dropped into wheezy more recently.
>>
>> Yep, but testing (wheezy) has been using gdm3 (3.x) as the default
>> since long, long time ago. I suppose because gdm (2.x) is going to be
>> dropped in a near future.
> 
> [2011-11-08] gdm3 3.0.4-4 MIGRATED to testing (Britney) ...
> [2011-09-24] gdm3 2.30.5-11 MIGRATED to testing (Britney)
> 
> from
> http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gdm3.html

Ah! You're right :-O

I didn't notice we've been using the older version (2.30) all this time, 
maybe because gdm3 3.0.4 and 2.30.5 share a very similar UI and 
configuration options. 

But now you mention... the recent update that pulled gnome-shell also 
pulled this package. I remember I was asked by the updater routine if I 
wanted to keep the old configuration files or updating to the new ones.

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón