GDM3

[Sebastien Bacher]

On dim., 2011-07-31 at 04:05 -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> A perpetual goal of the Desktop Team is to try to reduce our patch
> delta with upstream. GDM is one of the most heavily patched components
> in Ubuntu that now is no longer being shipped by default on the main
> CD. I'd like to see us at least reduce our delta with Debian to make
> our maintenance easier.

Hey,

We started on that this cycle and dropped for example gdmsetup and some
other of your custome hacks, we can probably do better still though!

> Is Debian's renaming to gdm3 permanent? Using the same package names
> makes looking at a diff quite a bit simpler, so I'd like to see us
> follow Debian's naming practice.

Yes, they said they would keep the source name like to avoid upgrading
users from one version to the new one, we could rename the source but we
shouldn't i.e rename the etc directory and break configs.

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Sebastien Bacher