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Re: gdm *needs* to be updated



On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 07:40:29AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> Hi all,

Instead of all, you could have tried the current maintainer directly.

> According to George Jirka, maintainer of gdm, a new release will be out
> sometime this weekend; that will be gdm 2.2.3. Currently in unstable is gdm

Good.  I've been waiting for this to solve the upgrade issues from the current
version in Debian.

> 2.0-0.beta4.15. A fairly serious security hole was plugged in 2.2.2.1, and

which didn't exist in Debian's 2.0-0.beta4.15.

> Most important of these are the XDMCP problems, which have mostly been fixed
> (and will finally be killed in 2.2.3).

Not until 2.2.3, which isn't out yet.

> This package is in dire need of a new maintainer, or at least an NMU. (I am

No, it's been in dire need of upstream and the Debian maintainer
finding each other and merging patches.  That's been done, and I'm now
waiting on the new version (there were over 500k of diffs to current
CVS before XDMCP was fixed).

> not a Debian developer, I help out with the GNOME Project.) The current
> developer has been quite unresponsive.

You haven't sent me mail directly on this.  Anyone who has, has been given
a reply.  I've been in contact directly with George, and have been waiting
for 2.2.3.

-- 
Ryan Murray, Debian Developer (rmurray@cyberhqz.com, rmurray@debian.org)
The opinions expressed here are my own.

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