Source: gdm3 Version: 49.0.1-1 X-Debbugs-CC: [email protected], [email protected]
This is an alternative to https://bugs.debian.org/1107944 . I figured it is expressed differently enough to be worth a separate bug. GDM 49 now uses dynamic users for greeter sessions. (By the way, the merge request that landed this said that it allows gdm to be used with dbus-broker instead of dbus-daemon). Therefore, Arch Linux now installs gdm without a system user. It does have a gdm **group** created with this sysusers snippet: g gdm 120 - That sets a UID for the group of 120. In Debian, I don't believe we care about the gdm UID, so a Debian version would look like one of these 2 lines, depending on whether we decide to keep the Debian-specific group name: g Debian-gdm - - g gdm - - Then there is this proposal to store dconf overrides in /etc/dconf/gdm.d/ https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/-/merge_requests/312 We could then remove our 91_dconf_database_path.patch. We have several packaging files that reference dconf that would need to be updated. Upgrades are an extra complication. In the long term, having a drop-in directory for dconf overrides makes it simpler for users and system administrators to override Debian defaults. References ---------------- - https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/gdm/-/blob/main/PKGBUILD - https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/gdm/blob/rawhide/f/gdm.sysusers Fedora 43 still creates a gdm user - https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/-/issues/553 Thank you, Jeremy Bícha
