Re: add a special Provides: to all login manager packages

[Christoph Wickert <christoph wickert googlemail com>]

Am Mittwoch, den 18.02.2009, 17:53 -0500 schrieb seth vidal:
> On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 14:39 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 17:37 -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> > > 
> > > Bottom line is that while it's certainly within anyone's rights to add
> > > their new login manager, it's also within the rights of the people
> > > working on the desktop to close any bugs filed by people using
> > > something else WONTFIX.
> > 
> > I think its fair for the project to define what it takes to be a
> > supported login manager, and if your login manager doesn't meet those
> > requirements, then the issues don't get looked at, etc...
> 
> "Supported" We don't provide support anyway.

Obviously...

I filed three bugs against gdm, none of them got fixed, in fact they are
all in state NEW or were closed by the bugzappers. IIRC none of them
even got a single comment from the maintainer. That's what I call a
supported login manager. ;)

Regards,
Christoph