On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 09:48:35PM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > On mar., 2015-07-21 at 15:20 +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > > No, startx has also worked on my machine without the executable bit on that > > file. It's lightdm that seems to be depending on something others don't. > > I had the impression that startx (without argument) would use Xsession. > At least the Xsession file header gives that impression.
On related note, this system executes the ~/.xsession file as a shell script, but it isn't executable :) > > If this is an actual requirement of some standard, please reassign the bug > > to the owner of the file (x11-common) and have them enforce the standard. > > It's already done. x11-common ships Xsession with executable bit. Well, then it shouldn't ship it as a conffile, because that implies they can't maintain the enforcement, as the user is allowed to do all sorts of things to conffiles (and usually expected to). (Executable configuration file - doesn't that just sound wrong?) -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org