[arch-dev-public] Dropping LXDM
Apparently LXDM is more broken than ever, thanks to its developers and recent changes in package. The only reasonable solution I see is dropping it and not wasting time fixing it. We did our best, but during 2 years since last release, it could become a zombie. And it did. I can point at least 2 better alternatives in our repositories: Slim and LightDM. Both are lightweight and providing similiar set of features. Cheers. -- Bartłomiej Piotrowski http://bpiotrowski.pl/
On 11/09/13 03:22, Bartłomiej Piotrowski wrote:
Apparently LXDM is more broken than ever, thanks to its developers and recent changes in package.
The only reasonable solution I see is dropping it and not wasting time fixing it. We did our best, but during 2 years since last release, it could become a zombie. And it did.
I can point at least 2 better alternatives in our repositories: Slim and LightDM. Both are lightweight and providing similiar set of features.
Slim is never a better solution. Also "thanks to its developers and recent changes in package" and "during 2 years since last release" make zero sense taken together. It seems more bugs were created than fixed with the 2000 line git patch that was pulled in recently. Allan
On 2013-09-11 00:53, Allan McRae wrote:
Also "thanks to its developers and recent changes in package" and "during 2 years since last release" make zero sense taken together.
What exactly doesn't make sense? The fact that LXDM is based on ConsoleKit and even with git patch is unable to utilize logind correctly?
It seems more bugs were created than fixed with the 2000 line git patch that was pulled in recently.
Whether we keep it or drop it, we will only delay more bug reports. -- Bartłomiej Piotrowski http://bpiotrowski.pl/
[2013-09-11 08:56:42 +0200] Bartłomiej Piotrowski:
On 2013-09-11 00:53, Allan McRae wrote:
Also "thanks to its developers and recent changes in package" and "during 2 years since last release" make zero sense taken together.
What exactly doesn't make sense? The fact that LXDM is based on ConsoleKit and even with git patch is unable to utilize logind correctly?
Upstream seems pretty active; do you mean that all the problems we have with our package are still present in git master? If not, we should try to convince upstream to make a release - and if they are not willing to we can always package a git snapshot. Cheers. -- Gaetan
2013/9/11 Gaetan Bisson <bisson@archlinux.org>
[2013-09-11 08:56:42 +0200] Bartłomiej Piotrowski:
On 2013-09-11 00:53, Allan McRae wrote:
Also "thanks to its developers and recent changes in package" and "during 2 years since last release" make zero sense taken together.
What exactly doesn't make sense? The fact that LXDM is based on ConsoleKit and even with git patch is unable to utilize logind correctly?
Upstream seems pretty active; do you mean that all the problems we have with our package are still present in git master? If not, we should try to convince upstream to make a release - and if they are not willing to we can always package a git snapshot.
Now I adopted LXDM, and willing to maintain it in the future. lxdm 0.4.1-26 is the current git snapshot, and it works pretty well. The commits in the recent days are fix the compatibility with systemd-logind's session tracking feature, and fix autologin functionality (thanks to dgod). If you found any problem with the current package, please report it in our bug tracker. But if there are still major problems come to light, then I won't hesitate to move it into unsupported. -- György Balló
participants (4)
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Allan McRae
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Balló György
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Bartłomiej Piotrowski
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Gaetan Bisson