Newer version of lightdm for 14.04.1 -- is this possible?

[Tom H]

On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 4:39 PM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
>
> Are there any plans to backport a newer version of lightdm for 14.04 LTS? The
> current version (1.10.1-0ubuntu1) is 'broken' -- specificly it does not
> auto-re-login (autologin only works the *first* time, never after the user
> logs out). I believe this is fixed in 1.11 (and later). I don't want to
> upgrade to 14.10 and land on the upgrade-every-9-months roller coaster. I
> would like to stay with 14.04 LTS for its full 5 years and enjoy a stable
> system (except for lightdm being broken). (There are some issues with the
> Unity greeter, but I suspect using an alternitive greeter will fix that.)

You've asked a similar question in the past. I've forgotten whether it
was for lightdm or another package.

You could install lightdm from 14.10 rather than upgrade everything to
14.10. The only other package that you'd need from 14.10 would be
lsb-base, which has dependencies.

Or you could rebuild 1.11 and make it depend on 14.04 in general and
lsb-base 4.1+Debian11ubuntu6 in particular.

The changes between 4.1+Debian11ubuntu6 and 4.1+Debian11ubuntu8 are:

* Add 01-upstart-lsb from the upstart package.

* Modify 01-upstart-lsb hook, to make executing rc.d scripts no-op if
there is an upstart job for that script.