Re: gdm3

[Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

:)

Having gdm be renamed gdm3 when gdm moved from 2.20 to 2.30 wasn't
helpful in this context...