[Bug 501800] Re: [removal-request] Please remove deprecated GDM themes

[Andrew Starr-Bochicchio]

On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 6:23 AM, Chris Coulson
<chrisccoulson at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Is it really right to remove these? We still have the gdm-2.20 package
> in the archive, and it is still used by Xubuntu
>

Does Xubuntu actually use gdm-2.20? See:

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 3:15 AM, Lionel Le Folgoc <mrpouit at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 03:05:13AM -0000, Andrew Starr-Bochicchio wrote:
>> arc-colors (2.7-1ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low
>>
>>   * debian/control:
>>    - Don't depend on gdm and add a suggests on the legacy gdm-2.20.
>>      The new GDM doesn't support the xml based theming, and Xubuntu
>>      has retained the legacy GDM. Allows Xubuntu users to use the GDM
>>      themes without pulling in the new GDM and Ubuntu users to use the
>>      backgrounds without pulling in the legacy GDM.
>>    - Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.3, no changes needed.
>>
>> Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:52:06 -0400
>> Changed-By: Andrew Starr-Bochicchio <a.starr.b at gmail.com>
>> Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <ubuntu-motu at lists.ubuntu.com>
>> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/+source/arc-colors/2.7-1ubuntu1
>
> This was indeed the initial plan, but we finally switched to the new
> gdm (unless it changed again very recently). The old one poses too many
> maintenance problems, and also configuration files issues (it would
> break rather badly when doing things like going back gdm -> gdm-2.20).
>
> So I'm not sure this change is required. I just asked on #ubuntu-devel
> to know why the old gdm was accepted into karmic in the first place…
>
> Cheers,
> Lionel

As far as I can tell the only packages that use gdm-2.20 are the
arc-colors GDM themes.

$ apt-cache rdepends gdm-2.20
gdm-2.20
Reverse Depends:
  arc-wise
  arc-wine
  arc-noble
  arc-illustrious
  arc-human
  arc-dust
  arc-brave

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[removal-request] Please remove deprecated GDM themes
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/501800
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