Bug#355706: xdm: Xsetup stopped working

[Diego Biurrun <diego@biurrun.de>]

Package: xdm
Version: 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4
Severity: normal


Hello,

sometime in January xdm stopped displaying a background picture (and
boy, that gray grid pattern is ugly..).  It seems that support for
/etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup was dropped silently.  This contradicts the
documentation since xdm.1 still says that background images should be
set using Xsetup.

Please restore the original behavior, fix the man page or at least
document a workaround somewhere.

Regards

Diego

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-rc3
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages xdm depends on:
ii  cpp                       4:4.0.2-2      The GNU C preprocessor (cpp)
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]     1.4.71         Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                     2.3.6-3        GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libice6                   6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libpam-modules            0.79-3.1       Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime            0.79-3.1       Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g                  0.79-3.1       Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libselinux1               1.28-4         SELinux shared libraries
ii  libsm6                    6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System Session Management
ii  libx11-6                  6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxau6                   6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Authentication library
ii  libxaw8                   6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Athena widget set library
ii  libxdmcp6                 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Display Manager Control Protocol
ii  libxext6                  6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxinerama1              6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System multi-head display
ii  libxmu6                   6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System miscellaneous util
ii  libxp6                    6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System printing extension
ii  libxpm4                   6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X pixmap library
ii  libxt6                    6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii  xbase-clients             6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 miscellaneous X clients

xdm recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
  xdm/stop_running_server_with_children: false
  xdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/X11/xdm
* shared/default-x-display-manager: xdm