Bug#886855: xfce4-session: verbose logging is always enabled

[Dmitry Katsubo]

I've encountered the same problem being discussed: xfce4-session v4.12.1-6 
(Debian buster) creates ~/.xfce4-session.verbose-log even though XFSM_VERBOSE 
variable is not set.

Bug#886855: xfce4-session: verbose logging is always enabled

[Sergio Gelato]

To fin4478: the upstream commit is trivial to cherry-pick onto 4.12.1, if your
goal is just to gain control over the logging you could try that (as I've done
with good success). The error you got in attempting to package 4.13 is
unrelated to this bug.

I'm not sure what the point was of filing #891284: it looks like a candidate
for merging with this bug.

Bug#886855: xfce4-session: verbose logging is always enabled

[Sergio Gelato]

Package: xfce4-session
Version: 4.12.1-5
Tags: fixed-upstream

The Debian package of xfce4-session in stretch (and, apparently, in sid)
is still affected by upstream bug #11698, for which a fix is available as
upstream git commit 26f9ae8df629f02af0773df2ed82db6b85c5b556 .

Basically, xfce4-session always logs verbosely, even if XFSM_VERBOSE is not
set in the environment.