Re: gdm3

[Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com>]

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