Bug#527619: xdm should depend on x11-xserver-utils

[Phil Endecott <spam_from_debian_bugs_10@chezphil.org>]

Package: xdm
Version: 1:1.1.8-5
Severity: normal


Currently xdm suggests xutils, which depends on x11-xserver-utils.
x11-xserver-utils includes the xrdb program.

If xrdb is not installed, xdm only just works.  Specifically, it will
not be able to read the contents of its configuration files in
/etc/X11/xdm.  So it will present its default appearance.  More
seriously it will not know to write a PID file in /var/run (this
is specified in /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config).  Consequently,
/etc/init.d/xdm stop|restart will fail with a "not running" message
even though xdm is running.

I suggest that xdm should depend on x11-server-utils.


Phil.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-rc3
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages xdm depends on:
ii  cpp                       4:4.1.1-6      The GNU C preprocessor (cpp)
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]     1.4.72         Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                     2.9-8          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libice6                   1:1.0.1-2      X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libpam0g                  1.0.1-2        Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libselinux1               2.0.59-1       SELinux shared libraries
ii  libsm6                    1:1.0.1-3      X11 Session Management library
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.0.3-6      X11 client-side library
ii  libxau6                   1:1.0.1-2      X11 authorisation library
ii  libxaw7                   6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Athena widget set library
ii  libxdmcp6                 1:1.0.1-2      X11 Display Manager Control Protoc
ii  libxext6                  1:1.0.1-2      X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxft2                   2.1.12-3       FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxinerama1              2:1.0.3-2      X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxmu6                   6.9.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System miscellaneous util
ii  libxpm4                   6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X pixmap library
ii  libxrender1               1:0.9.4-2      X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxt6                    1:1.0.2-2      X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  lsb-base                  3.2-22         Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  x11-common                1:7.4+1        X Window System (X.Org) infrastruc
ii  x11-utils                 7.4+1          X11 utilities

xdm recommends no packages.

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