Re: Release-critical Bugreport for November 26, 1999
Le Sat, Nov 27, 1999 at 06:36:52PM -0500, Branden Robinson écrivait:
> Sorry for the spam; someone please direct me to the correct forum. Is it
> <bugscan@debian.org>?
No, debian-devel is ok.
> > > Package: xdm (main)
> > > Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
> > > 50740 xdm: xdm conflicts with gdm and refuses to stay installed
> >
> > Shouldn't be too much work to fix.
>
> I'm not sure this is even really an RC bug. Sounds like a problem with gdm
> to me. Other display managers should just stay out of each other's way
Yes, it's gdm. I added the conflict until we can have a proper policy
about the way display-manager are handled. Ryan Murray which I added in
the CC will take gdm from me. Feel free to close the bug in xdm. There's
already an open bug report about it in gdm ...
> until the maintainers of {g,k,w}dm get together with me on debian-x and
Well, I don't want to subscribe to yet another list. Can't we simply
discuss this by sending a CC to the concerned people ?
> hash out a policy. xdm is not a hog. It doesn't do XDMCP listening as it
> ships, so it doesn't have a TCP port tied up. It defaults to managing
> server :0 on VT 7. Someone recently proposed an abstraction layer for the
> display managers. This is a good idea; we just need to get all the
> display manager maintainers on board. Not sure if this can be done before
> the freeze.
Anyway, we'll need something like display-manager-common and someone
should do this work. Any volunteer ?
Cheers,
--
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