Package: xdm
Version: 6.9.0.dfsg.1-3
Severity: normal
Upon upgrading xdm to version 6.9.0.dfsg-1.3, dpkg silently rewrote
/etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config such that my Xsetup script does not get run
anymore. This is contrary to the xdm(1) manual page which clearly states
that the Xsetup script will get run:
After resetting the X server, xdm runs the Xsetup script to assist in
setting up the screen the user sees along with the xlogin widget.
If there is some good reason why the default configuration should
prevent local customizations of the login screen (such as installing a
nice background picture, or starting some buttons to shutdown or
reboot the machine), this should at least be documented. Neither the
changelog nor the NEWS file warned me that my local setup would stop
working.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27makholm6
Locale: LANG=en_DK, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.iso88591 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages xdm depends on:
ii cpp 4:4.0.2-2 The GNU C preprocessor (cpp)
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.67 Debian configuration management sy
ii libc6 2.3.5-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libice6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-3 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libpam-modules 0.79-3 Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii libpam-runtime 0.79-3 Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii libpam0g 0.79-3 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libselinux1 1.28-2 SELinux shared libraries
ii libsm6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-3 X Window System Session Management
ii libx11-6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-3 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxau6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-3 X Authentication library
ii libxaw8 6.9.0.dfsg.1-3 X Athena widget set library
ii libxdmcp6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-3 X Display Manager Control Protocol
ii libxext6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-3 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxinerama1 6.9.0.dfsg.1-3 X Window System multi-head display
ii libxmu6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-3 X Window System miscellaneous util
ii libxp6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-3 X Window System printing extension
ii libxpm4 6.9.0.dfsg.1-3 X pixmap library
ii libxt6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-3 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii xbase-clients 6.9.0.dfsg.1-3 miscellaneous X clients
xdm recommends no packages.
-- debconf information:
xdm/stop_running_server_with_children: false
xdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/X11/xdm
* shared/default-x-display-manager: xdm
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