Bug#374214: Improve integration of of kdmrc changes done from KDE and those from dpkg
On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 12:44:10PM -0400, Christopher Martin wrote:
> tags 374214 upstream
> forwarded 374214 http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86650
> severity 292401 wishlist
> merge 292401 374214
> stop
>
> I agree; this is quite annoying, and makes kdm harder to administer.
> We've passed this report to upstream, but haven't gotten a fix yet.
> I'll give the upstream report a prod.
>
> Cheers,
> Christopher Martin
Thanks. To the extent this involves dpkg, isn't it Debian-specific?
I agree there's some upstream work involved too.
Ross
>
> On Saturday 17 June 2006 18:58, Ross Boylan wrote:
> > Package: kdm
> > Version: 4:3.5.3-2
> > Severity: wishlist
> >
> > Currently, if you make a change to kdmrc from within KDE (i.e., via
> > KDE's graphical tools) it makes big changes to /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc.
> > These include deleting all the comments.
> >
> > On subsequent apt-get upgrade's I get the message that kdmrc has been
> > customized, and that the installer will leave it alone.
> >
> > It would be nice if the changes made from KDE to kdmrc were less
> > radical, and if these could be integrated smoothly into dpkg's
> > upgrade process.
> >
> > The current changes are so extensive that, at least for me, running
> > ediff on kdmrc vs kdmrc.dpkg-dist didn't yield useful information
> > about which changes to merge.
> >
> > I don't know if the kdm package is the home of the control center
> > tools that rewrite kdmrc. If it is not, it might be appropriate to
> > reassign this wish to there.
> >
> > -- System Information:
> > Debian Release: testing/unstable
> > APT prefers testing
> > APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (990, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable')
> > Architecture: i386 (i686)
> > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> > Kernel: Linux 2.4.27advncdfs
> > Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
> >
> > Versions of packages kdm depends on:
> > ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.1 Debian configuration
> > management sy ii kdebase-bin 4:3.5.3-2 core
> > binaries for the KDE base mod ii kdebase-data
> > 4:3.5.3-2 shared data files for the KDE base ii kdelibs4c2a
> > 4:3.5.3-1 core libraries and binaries for al ii libc6
> > 2.3.6-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii
> > libgcc1 1:4.1.0-4 GCC support library ii
> > libpam-runtime 0.79-3.1 Runtime support for the PAM
> > librar ii libpam0g 0.79-3.1 Pluggable
> > Authentication Modules l ii libqt3-mt 3:3.3.6-2
> > Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v ii libstdc++6
> > 4.1.0-4 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libx11-6
> > 2:1.0.0-6 X11 client-side library ii libxau6
> > 1:1.0.0-3 X11 authorisation library ii libxdmcp6
> > 1:1.0.0-4 X11 Display Manager Control Protoc ii libxtst6
> > 1:1.0.1-3 X11 Testing -- Resource extension ii
> > xbase-clients 1:7.0.1-2 miscellaneous X clients
> >
> > Versions of packages kdm recommends:
> > ii logrotate 3.7.1-3 Log rotation utility
> >
> > -- debconf information excluded
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