Bug#798097: Restarting logind kills Xserver

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 13:16:48 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:

> On Sun, 11 Oct 2015 16:22:24 +0200 Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> wrote:
> 
> > We dropped the logind restart in systemd_226-4 for now and the
> > xserver-xorg-core package gained a  Breaks against older systemd versions.
> > 
> > This is not a real fix yet, but it should be sufficient to not be RC.
> > 
> > Thus downgrading to important. We still should change both logind and
> > Xorg so logind can be restarted safely without wreaking havoc.
> 
> Upstream logind/systemd has been fixed so it can be restarted safely
> now, see https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/5600
> 
> This change is in systemd v234.
> I suggest that we ship a patch that reverts [1] and xserver-xorg bumps
> the breaks against systemd to << 234.
> 
I don't want to ship a debian-specific patch for this.  Is there a way
for Xorg to detect logind has that bug fix?

Thanks,
Julien