[MIR] gdm3
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gdm3 (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre |
Bug Description
Availability
============
Co-maintained with Debian GNOME. Built for all supported architectures.
Changes from Debian:
Update to 3.24
+ README.Debian: update for correct paths in Ubuntu
+ control.in:
- Don't recommend desktop-base
- Depend on bash for ubuntu_
+ rules:
- Don't override default user/group
- --enable-
- override dh_installinit with --no-start to avoid session being killed
+ rules, README.Debian, gdm3.8.pod:
Use upstream custom.conf instead of daemon.conf
+ gdm3.{postinst,
+ gdm3.postinst: don't kill gdm on upgrade
+ gdm3.*.pam: Make pam_env read ~/.pam_environment (LP: #952185)
+ gdm3.install:
- Stop installing default.desktop. It adds unnecessary clutter
("System Default") to the session chooser.
- Don't install debian/Xsession
+ ubuntu_
+ ubuntu_
- Emit upstart events
+ ubuntu_
- Fix loading from /etc/X11/
+ ubuntu_
- Add hook to run prime-offload (as root) and prime-switch if
nvidia-prime is installed (LP: #1262068)
+ revert_
- On Ubuntu accountservices only stores the language and not the
full locale as needed by LANG.
+ ubuntu_
- Show warning dialog in case of error in ~/.profile etc. and
don't let a syntax error make the login fail (LP: #678421).
+ 09_default_
- Dropped, all the other Ubuntu flavors use LightDM and it only takes a
gsettings override to set a different default session
Rationale
=========
gnome-shell (MIR LP: #1685870) depends on gir1.2-gdm-1.0 (which depends on libgdm1). gnome-shell currently will not run if that dependency is not installed.
Robert Ancell was talking with the GDM developer Ray Strode about the possibility of GNOME switching to LightDM. So ask Robert about the status of that.
Security
========
https:/
There is one open CVE, but I think this is a common bug with Linux lock screens:
https:/
Quality assurance
=================
- Ubuntu Desktop Bugs is subscribed to this package.
https:/
https:/
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dh_auto_test runs the minimal upstream tests
Dependencies
============
All binary dependencies should be in main already. See Background information.
Standards compliance
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3.9.8
Maintenance
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- Actively developed upstream
https:/
https:/
Debian packaging uses svn, but we're hoping to convert to git this year (which will allow for Ubuntu branches):
https:/
Background information
=======
gdm3 was previously in main as 'gdm'. (There is no MIR bug for that since it was in Ubuntu before MIR bugs.)
At this time, we don't need the gdm3 binary promoted to main, only gir1.2-gdm-1.0 and libgdm1. The gdm3 binary depends on gnome-session (source in main, binary in universe) and recommends xserver-xephyr (source in main, binary in universe).
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
Changed in gdm3 (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox) |
description: | updated |
Changed in gdm3 (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in gdm3 (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | Ubuntu Security Team (ubuntu-security) → Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox) |
Since this was in main previously, I don't see any reason to really block it, but it still ought to have some review by the Security team given the obvious security history for gdm and being a login manager.