On 04/01/2016 03:18 PM, Daniel Reurich wrote: > On 02/04/16 07:58, Boruch Baum wrote: >> On 04/01/2016 02:31 PM, Adam Borowski wrote: >>> On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 12:58:23PM -0400, Boruch Baum wrote: >>>> Just looking at issues with the devuan default desktop's screensave, and >>>> its config file: ~/.xscreensaver file, posted here for the attention of >>>> the maintainers and the interest of members of the list. >>>> >>>> 1] Obnoxious nag messages - All logins to the devuan default desktop >>>> begin with not one but two separate nag messages from xscreensaver. The >>>> first "warns" the user that the version is out of date. The second >>>> "warns" the user that the sysadmin is doing a dis-service by keeping it >>>> out of date. >>>> >>>> 2] forced config screen - after the two obnoxious nag messages, one is >>>> forced to be confronted with the xscreensaver customization screen >>> >>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=819703 >>> >>> It's a time bomb by xscreensaver's upstream author. And like micq before, >>> it looks like xscreensaver needs to be replaced or forked. Obviously, using >>> gnome-screensaver is not an option as that pulls in a good part of Gnome3 >>> including systemd. >>> >> >> I'm not one to jump to that kind of conclusion before looking at some >> alternatives first. It's possible that the solution has already been >> provided by the author - I haven't checked the packages MAKEFILE for >> possible build-time config options, or other compile-time options. >> Lacking that, its also possible and may be appropriate to use debian's >> 'quilt' system to patch the upstream. It's also possible that just >> contacting the author and making a request will effect a change. >> > gnome-screensaver depends on libsystemd0 directly as well as on > gnome-session-bin which also depends on libsystemd0 > > Are you volunteering to repackage them? > > With regards to packaging core gnome packages, I have a current issue > with tracking all the from debian in our preferred git workflow because > it uses subversion for just the /debian folder of each package. > > This means importing to git in a way that we are able to track both the > upstream source and debians vcs is hard. I have almost sorted the plan > for doing that so we can have a good process that will be easier to work > with in the long term and we will retain at our fingertips the full > development history from both upstream and debian. > > > regards, > Daniel > The link Adam provided to the debian bug report discussion indicates debian is moving to deal with the nag screen issue.
As for the hard-coded debian URL, I have another idea that's a kludge, but it'll probably work, and its real simple: place a default version of '.xscreensaver' in /etc/skel. Let me stress though that I haven't looked at the package's MAKEFILE, or the current debian 'quilt' entries, and my sense is that one of those is the culprit. -- hkp://keys.gnupg.net CA45 09B5 5351 7C11 A9D1 7286 0036 9E45 1595 8BC0 _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
