On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 6:23 AM, Chris Coulson <chrisccoul...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Is it really right to remove these? We still have the gdm-2.20 package > in the archive, and it is still used by Xubuntu >
Does Xubuntu actually use gdm-2.20? See: On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 3:15 AM, Lionel Le Folgoc <mrpo...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 03:05:13AM -0000, Andrew Starr-Bochicchio wrote: >> arc-colors (2.7-1ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low >> >> * debian/control: >> - Don't depend on gdm and add a suggests on the legacy gdm-2.20. >> The new GDM doesn't support the xml based theming, and Xubuntu >> has retained the legacy GDM. Allows Xubuntu users to use the GDM >> themes without pulling in the new GDM and Ubuntu users to use the >> backgrounds without pulling in the legacy GDM. >> - Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.3, no changes needed. >> >> Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:52:06 -0400 >> Changed-By: Andrew Starr-Bochicchio <a.star...@gmail.com> >> Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <ubuntu-m...@lists.ubuntu.com> >> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/+source/arc-colors/2.7-1ubuntu1 > > This was indeed the initial plan, but we finally switched to the new > gdm (unless it changed again very recently). The old one poses too many > maintenance problems, and also configuration files issues (it would > break rather badly when doing things like going back gdm -> gdm-2.20). > > So I'm not sure this change is required. I just asked on #ubuntu-devel > to know why the old gdm was accepted into karmic in the first place… > > Cheers, > Lionel As far as I can tell the only packages that use gdm-2.20 are the arc-colors GDM themes. $ apt-cache rdepends gdm-2.20 gdm-2.20 Reverse Depends: arc-wise arc-wine arc-noble arc-illustrious arc-human arc-dust arc-brave -- [removal-request] Please remove deprecated GDM themes https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/501800 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
