In the interim, I made an NMU with the following trivial change.
Ben.
diff -u xdm-1.1.8/debian/changelog xdm-1.1.8/debian/changelog
--- xdm-1.1.8/debian/changelog
+++ xdm-1.1.8/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+xdm (1:1.1.8-1.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Non-maintainer upload
+ * Disable XDM-AUTHORIZATION in favour of MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE (closes: #486606)
+
+ -- Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:23:37 +0000
+
xdm (1:1.1.8-1) unstable; urgency=low
* Drop lintian overrides, they're unused anyway.
diff -u xdm-1.1.8/debian/rules xdm-1.1.8/debian/rules
--- xdm-1.1.8/debian/rules
+++ xdm-1.1.8/debian/rules
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
confflags += --with-pam \
--with-xdmconfigdir=/etc/X11/xdm \
--with-xdmscriptdir=\$${xdmconfigdir} \
- --with-xdmauthdir=/var/lib/xdm \
+ --disable-xdm-auth \
--with-default-vt=vt7 \
--with-pixmapdir=/usr/share/X11/xdm/pixmaps \
--with-color-pixmap=debian.xpm \
--- END ---
--
Ben Hutchings
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. - Lily Tomlin
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