[pkg-fso-maint] nodm and x-display-manager (was Re: [pkg-fso-commits] [SCM] Automatic Display Manager branch, master, updated. debian/0.4-6-g3103a55)

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Mittwoch, den 08.10.2008, 12:00 +0200 schrieb Luca Capello:
> Hi there!
> 
> This is for the future, but posting anyway to keep track of it.
> 
> On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:46:36 +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> > The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
> > commit 3103a55859786cfc3ff5a5f3b8a0240f44ffa0fc
> [...]
> >  Package: nodm
> >  Architecture: all
> >  Depends: xinit, x11-common
> > -Conflicts: gdm, xdm, kdm, x-display-manager
> > +Conflicts: gdm, xdm, kdm, x-display-manager, zhone-session
> >  Description: Automatic Display Manager
> 
> I think what we should aim is something similar to the other *dm: no
> conflicts between them.  Then nodm must Provides: x-display-manager,
> since it's an X Display Manager ;-)

Yes. It works by setting /etc/X11/default-display-manager with debconf
shared question handling – stuff I don’t know much about. This works for
most users, so I’ll wait until someone complains, or find the time to do
it properly, or someone else does it.

Greetings,
Joachim


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