Bug#850486: xserver-xorg-core: please clarify NEWS.Debian wrt #814313
Package: xserver-xorg-core
Version: 2:1.19.0-3
Severity: wishlist
Hi!
Could you please edit NEWS.Debian for the benefit of non-systemd users?
It currently says just:
* it relies on logind and libpam-systemd
which, according to my initial extensive but naive testing, isn't true:
everything works fine in typical use (aka using a login manager) even on
quite ancient hardware (userspace display access is needed only on ISA and
very earliest PCI graphics cards, present in machines hardly even supported
by Debian anymore -- plus hurd (not sure what's the coverage in kfreebsd)).
Only after ansgar's suggestion, I found out that it's "startx" that fails to
work.
Thus, could you please add such a clarification? Such as:
- * it relies on logind and libpam-systemd
+ * it relies on logind and libpam-systemd (for startx but not *dm)
It'd help explain why the dependency on libpam-systemd is only a Recommends
and what are the consequencies of skipping it. This especially matters as
systemd-shim is an unmaintained piece of poo that reportedly stopped working
even for folks for whom it used to work (that excludes me since the very
beginning).
Meow!
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