On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 04:57:53PM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On lun., 2015-07-20 at 12:51 +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> > Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org:
> >
> > > unarchive 748944
> > Bug #748944 {Done: James Lynn <ja...@biometry.me.uk>} [lightdm]
> > lightdm: Attempt to login fails to get past greeter
> > Unarchived Bug 748944
> > > submitter 748944 !
> > Bug #748944 {Done: James Lynn <ja...@biometry.me.uk>} [lightdm]
> > lightdm: Attempt to login fails to get past greeter
> > Changed Bug submitter to 'Josip Rodin <j...@debbugs.entuzijast.net>'
> > from 'James Lynn <ja...@biometry.me.uk>'
> > > thanks
> > Stopping processing here.
>
> Please don't hijack bugs. Also, that won't change anything. Sure we
> rely on the fact that /etc/X11/Xsession is executable, like startx and
> any display manager which does not specifically chose something else.
> We have to rely on a minimal system, we can't really check (or worse,
> fix) each and every bit of the system.
No, startx has also worked on my machine without the executable bit on that
file. It's lightdm that seems to be depending on something others don't.
If this is an actual requirement of some standard, please reassign the bug
to the owner of the file (x11-common) and have them enforce the standard.
If it isn't a standard, please handle the legitimate discrepancy.
Neither of these options really seems onerous.
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