On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 12:44:10PM -0400, Christopher Martin wrote: > tags 374214 upstream > forwarded 374214 http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86650 > severity 292401 wishlist > merge 292401 374214 > stop > > I agree; this is quite annoying, and makes kdm harder to administer. > We've passed this report to upstream, but haven't gotten a fix yet. > I'll give the upstream report a prod. > > Cheers, > Christopher Martin
Thanks. To the extent this involves dpkg, isn't it Debian-specific? I agree there's some upstream work involved too. Ross > > On Saturday 17 June 2006 18:58, Ross Boylan wrote: > > Package: kdm > > Version: 4:3.5.3-2 > > Severity: wishlist > > > > Currently, if you make a change to kdmrc from within KDE (i.e., via > > KDE's graphical tools) it makes big changes to /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc. > > These include deleting all the comments. > > > > On subsequent apt-get upgrade's I get the message that kdmrc has been > > customized, and that the installer will leave it alone. > > > > It would be nice if the changes made from KDE to kdmrc were less > > radical, and if these could be integrated smoothly into dpkg's > > upgrade process. > > > > The current changes are so extensive that, at least for me, running > > ediff on kdmrc vs kdmrc.dpkg-dist didn't yield useful information > > about which changes to merge. > > > > I don't know if the kdm package is the home of the control center > > tools that rewrite kdmrc. If it is not, it might be appropriate to > > reassign this wish to there. > > > > -- System Information: > > Debian Release: testing/unstable > > APT prefers testing > > APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (990, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable') > > Architecture: i386 (i686) > > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > > Kernel: Linux 2.4.27advncdfs > > Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) > > > > Versions of packages kdm depends on: > > ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.1 Debian configuration > > management sy ii kdebase-bin 4:3.5.3-2 core > > binaries for the KDE base mod ii kdebase-data > > 4:3.5.3-2 shared data files for the KDE base ii kdelibs4c2a > > 4:3.5.3-1 core libraries and binaries for al ii libc6 > > 2.3.6-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii > > libgcc1 1:4.1.0-4 GCC support library ii > > libpam-runtime 0.79-3.1 Runtime support for the PAM > > librar ii libpam0g 0.79-3.1 Pluggable > > Authentication Modules l ii libqt3-mt 3:3.3.6-2 > > Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v ii libstdc++6 > > 4.1.0-4 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libx11-6 > > 2:1.0.0-6 X11 client-side library ii libxau6 > > 1:1.0.0-3 X11 authorisation library ii libxdmcp6 > > 1:1.0.0-4 X11 Display Manager Control Protoc ii libxtst6 > > 1:1.0.1-3 X11 Testing -- Resource extension ii > > xbase-clients 1:7.0.1-2 miscellaneous X clients > > > > Versions of packages kdm recommends: > > ii logrotate 3.7.1-3 Log rotation utility > > > > -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
