[Bug 845549] [NEW] Do not ship /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf

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Hi,

Currently, the lightdm-gtk-greeter binary package ships /etc/lightdm
/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf as a conffile. This is nice for users, because
they'll get the usual dpkg prompt on upgrades. Unfortunately, it's not
that great for derivatives where this greeter is used and a custom
theming is needed.

I tested quickly, and the gtk greeter is still able to start, and work
without this config file. So could you please stop shipping it (*and
handle gracefully its removal in maintainer scripts* -- sorry for the
highlight, but you didn't do that for /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf for
0.4.x -> 0.9.x upgrades...).

This would allow derivatives to ship their own config file to theme the
greeter (currently, I can't theme it for Xubuntu without either doing
some not-so-great things with dpkg-divert, or worse, sed, or forking the
greeter just to change its settings...).

Thanks.

** Affects: lightdm (Ubuntu)
     Importance: High
     Assignee: Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)
         Status: Triaged

** Affects: lightdm (Ubuntu Oneiric)
     Importance: High
     Assignee: Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)
         Status: Triaged


** Tags: patch rls-mgr-o-tracking
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Do not ship /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/845549
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