Ticket #976 (closed defect: fixed)
debathena-gdm-config doesn't handle Debian gdm3 package
| Reported by: | geofft | Owned by: | bbaren |
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| Priority: | high | Milestone: | The Distant Future |
| Component: | -- | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | Fixed in version: | debathena-gdm 1.0, debathena-gdm-config 1.39, debathena-pam-config 1.2.1, debathena-network-manager-config 1.3, debathena-kiosk 1.4.8 | |
| Upstream bug: |
Description
Ubuntu put what we call "new GDM" in the gdm package, starting from version 2.25. Debian, deciding that it was eventually going to be part of GNOME 3, put it in the gdm3 package and kept a gdm package around with "old GDM". We only ever tested this on Ubuntu. This causes the following immediate problem on Debian:
geofft@leveret:~$ aptitude -s install debathena-login-graphical
[...]
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
gdm3: Conflicts: gdm but 2.20.11-4 is to be installed.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
Remove the following packages:
1) gdm3
2) gnome
3) gnome-desktop-environment
The less immediate problem is that our build infrastructure conditionalizes on gdm package version, but on Debian, both gdm and gdm3 exist. One answer (probably the easier one) is to substvar in our gdm dependency, and on Debian where gdm3 exists, set NEW_GDM and set the substvar to gdm3, and simply not support old-gdm on Debian releases that include new-gdm. (This is analogous to what we are forced to do on Ubuntu.) If someone wants to be particularly ambitious, they could try making multiple binary packages debathena-gdm-config and debathena-gdm3-condig.
Change History
comment:2 Changed 13 years ago by bbaren
- Owner changed from geofft to bbaren
- Status changed from accepted to assigned
After discussing this with geofft, we've decided it's appropriate to create a debathena-gdm metapackage, which depends on gdm in Ubuntu and pre-Wheezy Debian and on gdm3 elsewhere.
comment:3 Changed 12 years ago by jdreed
So, geofft commited r25396 which did some of this, but then NACK'd it, but then never reverted it. So this is a mess. "Yay".
comment:5 Changed 12 years ago by jdreed
What's the status of this? WE need to build debathena-gdm and then rebuild gdm-config?
comment:6 Changed 12 years ago by jdreed
- Status changed from committed to development
- Fixed in version set to debathena-gdm 1.0, debathena-gdm-config 1.39
comment:7 Changed 12 years ago by jdreed
This also incorporates 1.38 (position the windows on the first monitor), and requires testing in lucid, natty, precise and squeeze, please.
comment:8 Changed 12 years ago by jdreed
r25729 moves our other packages that build-dep gdm to the new debathena-gdm
comment:9 Changed 12 years ago by jdreed
- Fixed in version changed from debathena-gdm 1.0, debathena-gdm-config 1.39 to debathena-gdm 1.0, debathena-gdm-config 1.39, debathena-pam-config 1.2.1, debathena-network-manager-config 1.3
comment:10 Changed 12 years ago by jdreed
- Fixed in version changed from debathena-gdm 1.0, debathena-gdm-config 1.39, debathena-pam-config 1.2.1, debathena-network-manager-config 1.3 to debathena-gdm 1.0, debathena-gdm-config 1.39, debathena-pam-config 1.2.1, debathena-network-manager-config 1.3, debathena-kiosk 1.4.8
comment:11 Changed 12 years ago by jdreed
People should, like, test this.
comment:13 Changed 12 years ago by jdreed
- Status changed from proposed to closed
- Resolution set to fixed
