Bug#968808: lightdm: Please package new upstream release (1.30.0)

[Boyuan Yang <byang@debian.org>]

Control: severity -1 wishlist

Hi,

在 2020-08-21星期五的 15:41 +0200，Yves-Alexis Perez写道：
> On Fri, 2020-08-21 at 09:29 -0400, Boyuan Yang wrote:
> > It seems that Debian's lightdm is stuck in v1.26. According to
> > lightdm
> > upstream at https://github.com/canonical/lightdm/releases , the new
> > v1.30.0 has been available since 2019. Please package the new
> > release.
> 
> That's because 1.26 is a long term support version, supported until
> 2023 (
> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/lightdm/2019-May/001170.html)
> whikle
> other versions have short support (1.30 support has supposedly ended
> in
> January 2020)
> > According to 
> > https://sources.debian.org/src/lightdm/1.26.0-7/debian/watch/ , the
> > debian/watch file explicitly embedded the 1.26 string in the
> > version
> > string, which doesn't make much sense. Please fix this version
> > watching
> > scheme as well. I believe it is not Debian's intention to only
> > monitor
> > the 1.26.x series.
> 
> Yes it is, actually (because of the above). We'll switch to the next
> long time
> support series when it's released.

Thanks for the clarification. Maybe we can keep this report as a
wishlist bug so that others may know the reason when reading it.

-- 
Thanks,
Boyuan Yang