2009/9/23 rent0n <<a href="mailto:rent0n@email.it">rent0n@email.it</a>> <div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">Loīc Martin wrote: > Loīc Martin wrote: >> rent0n wrote: >>> Hello, >>> I would like to know, if possible, the reasons why SLiM will not be >>> present in the karmic release, since the SLiM team found a new >>> mantainer and developpers and the project is still going on. >> >> Do you have some links pointing to a prepared Ubuntu package and some >> refusal by Ubuntu developers? >> </div>No i have not. I really can't understand your question, i just would like to know if SLiM has not been included in karmic because for some time the project was dropped down or there is some other reason. Now that they found a new mantainer, do you think the package will be re-included in Ubuntu 10.04? <div class="im"> </div></blockquote><div> I've had a look at <a href="http://packages.ubuntu.com">packages.ubuntu.com</a>. Presuming that SLiM is slim: <ul><li class="hardy"><a class="resultlink" href="http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/slim">hardy</a> (x11): Desktop-independent graphical login manager for X11 [universe] 1.2.6-1: amd64 i386 </li><li class="intrepid"><a class="resultlink" href="http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid/slim">intrepid</a> (x11): desktop-independent graphical login manager for X11 [universe] 1.3.0-1: amd64 i386 </li><li class="jaunty"><a class="resultlink" href="http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/slim">jaunty</a> (x11): desktop-independent graphical login manager for X11 [universe] 1.3.0-2: amd64 i386 </li></ul>It doesn't appear in karmic. The package names are things like slim 1.2.6-1. This means that it has been modified in Debian (the -1 bit) but not in Ubuntu (no -xubuntuy suffix) The reason it is not in karmic (and can't be now) is presumably because it was not in Debian when we synced from Debian earlier in the release cycle. Ubuntu has not modified it in any way - we've just taken it from Debian. If it gets back in Debian it will get back in Ubuntu. Looking at <a href="http://packages.debian.org">packages.debian.org</a> I find slim in lenny and sid. It has some terrible bugs though including one that says you can login as root without a password! It sounds like it is good that it is not in karmic! <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=slim;dist=unstable">http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=slim;dist=unstable</a> It _should_ appear in Ubuntu 10.04 unless we stop it being synced from Debian. However I'd question why you wouid want to run software that has such grave bugs. Looking at <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/slim.html">http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/slim.html</a> I think this means it was removed from Debian in August and reappeared in September. It was dropped from Debian in response to a request from the maintainer in July : <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=538921">http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=538921</a> but it seems to have a new maintainer. However I'd look at these bugs before considering running it myself: <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=505332">http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=505332</a> FTBFS with GCC 4.4 <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=536542">http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=536542</a> Allows root login without a password! <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=529306">http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=529306</a> insecure xauth secret Hope this helps Caroline </div></div>