> Can we do something about this? > depends on the scope of "we". :) ivan could make versioned dependencies, so kdm refuses to install when you have the bad libs. but that sucks, as it would prevent you from using latest x. the other possibility is fixing the x packages, so that they are compiled with xdmauth support. you may want to ask on debian-x@ (iirc) about this.
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