Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#823460: lightdm: SIGPIPE ignored in session

2016-10-17 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On Mon, 2016-10-17 at 16:48 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > To the lightdm maintainers: I intend to NMU (to DELAYED/7) to apply > the patch, unless you object. Yeah, please refrain. What I needed is an upstream comment on this, which didn't happen. I'll ping them again on the upstream tracker because

Bug#823460: lightdm: SIGPIPE ignored in session

2016-10-17 Thread Ian Jackson
In stretch, lightdm invokes the user's session with SIGPIPE ignored. This can cause programs with careful error handling to fail. See, for example, #841090. I see that this bug is still outstanding in stretch. To debian-release: The lightdm maintainers disagreed with me about the bug severity. P