Re: ANNOUNCE: GDM 2.2.5.5, the "Bad, Bad Maintainer" release

[Rodney Dawes <dobey ximian com>]

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That doesn't look right... shouldn't these be the new scripts, ie, ones
that expand @INTLTOOL_* ? "Bad, Bad Maintainer" indeed. ;)

-- dobey

On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 18:55, George wrote:
> THISISTHEENDMYONLYFRIENDTHEEND
> 
> Yes, I completely forgot to make a new release when I should have, so here
> it is anyway to fix my mistake.  A few important fixes are in, so I'd
> suggest upgrading.  Yes, I have been very lazy at doing this maintainer
> stuff recently due to the aquisition of a little bit more life then I had
> previously.  Not to mention that I now have to like ... work ... and not on
> GNOME :)
> 
> And now for the standard part of the release announcement:
> 
> Ahh, so you have no clue what gdm is?  Well if you've read this far ... let's
> not get into that.  Gdm is GNOME Display Manager, the little daemon that lets
> you log in to your computer.  It allows xdmcp multiple login displays,
> selection of languages, multiple login sessions and generally is much cooler
> then any xdm clone out there, mostly cuz it isn't an xdm clone to begin with.
> I mean heck, it's even got a graphical configurator, so you don't have to use
> the command line to hose your system anymore.
> 
> News:
> =====
> 
> Highlights of 2.2.5.5:
> 
> - Security: Unknown users are treated just like bad authentication
> 
> - Increase welcome string limit to 2048 for long welcome messages, though
>   you should really be careful with such large sizes
> 
> - Fixed typos (Karsten Weiss, me)
> 
> - Documentation updates (Pablo Saratxaga)
> 
> - Translation updates (Abel Cheung, Pablo Saratxaga, Alexander Shopov,
>   Kjartan Maraas, Stanislav Visnovsky, Tőivo Leedjärv, Zbigniew Chyla,
>   Christian Meyer, Karsten Weiss, Christian Rose, Duarte Loreto, 
>   Christophe Merlet, Ole Laursen, GNOME PL Team, P. Cholakov, 
>   T. Buyukliev)
> 
> Note:  Gdm2 was originally written by Martin K. Petersen <mkp mkp net>,
> and is now maintained by the Queen of England.  Although when she's not
> answering her email I usually cover for her.
> 
> Note2:  If installing from the tarball do note that make install
> overwrites most of the setup files, all except gdm.conf and gnomerc.
> It will however save backups with the .orig extension first.
> 
> Note3:  Distributors, packagers.  Please, PLEASE use the standard Gnome
> script when setting things up as gnome, or at least equivalently working
> scripts.  It should never be OK to just exec gnome-session, that is
> considered bad form.  The script needs to read (if available) the
> ~/.gnomerc and otherwise read the <sysconfdir>/gdm/gnomerc file.  This
> allows users and administrators to setup custom startup for gnome.
> 
> Downloading:
> ============
> 
> ftp://ftp.5z.com/pub/gdm/
> http://download.gnome.org/GNOME/stable/sources/gdm/
> http://download.gnome.org/GNOME/stable/redhat/i386/gdm/
> http://download.gnome.org/GNOME/stable/redhat/SRPMS/gdm/
> 
> This should also be available at some point:
> 
> http://download.gnome.org/GNOME/stable/redhat/alpha/gdm/
> 
> Have fun,
> 
> George
> 
> PS:  I AM THE WALRUS!!!
> 
> -- 
> George <jirka 5z com>
>    Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
>                        -- Pablo Picasso
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