[pkg-fso-maint] Bug#747077: nodm: please ack NMUs and apply various pending patches

[Simon McVittie]

Package: nodm
Version: 0.11-1.3
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

nodm has received various unapplied patches. It can make a better autologin
solution for embedded devices than mainstream *dm implementations like
gdm/kdm/lightdm, so it would be nice to have some of the easy bugs closed.

In particular, lightdm can auto-login, but if the auto-login X session
crashes or exits, lightdm does not seem to be able to log back in
immediately without a username/password prompt - this is fine for
"normal X sessions" where logging out means you wanted to let someone
else log in, but is undesirable for a more embedded/kiosk-like situation.

I'd rather not maintain nodm long-term, but I'd consider NMUing it if
the maintainers would like that to happen. I attach a possible patch
series, also available to pull from
https://alioth.debian.org/anonscm/git/users/smcv/nodm.git
(gitweb: <http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=users/smcv/nodm.git>).

While preparing this patch series I noticed that nodm is maintained
in git as a non-native package, but it appears to be treated more like
a native package, with no real upstream and no use of debian/patches to
split out Debian changes - would the maintainers be willing to consider
making it a real native package? That would work better with git-buildpackage,
for instance.

Alternatively, if the maintainers would prefer to go to 3.0 (quilt) with
maintainer-approved changes made "upstream" but NMU changes in
debian/patches, I could prepare a version that looked more like that
and make it available for git pull instead.

    S

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers proposed-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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