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[Robert Ancell <robert.ancell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Changed in: lightdm (Ubuntu Oneiric)
    Milestone: None => ubuntu-11.10

** Changed in: lightdm (Ubuntu Oneiric)
       Status: Fix Committed => Triaged

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/845549

Title:
  Do not ship /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf

Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “lightdm” source package in Oneiric:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Hi,

  Currently, the lightdm-gtk-greeter binary package ships /etc/lightdm
  /lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf as a conffile. This is nice for users,
  because they'll get the usual dpkg prompt on upgrades. Unfortunately,
  it's not that great for derivatives where this greeter is used and a
  custom theming is needed.

  I tested quickly, and the gtk greeter is still able to start, and work
  without this config file. So could you please stop shipping it (*and
  handle gracefully its removal in maintainer scripts* -- sorry for the
  highlight, but you didn't do that for /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf for
  0.4.x -> 0.9.x upgrades...).

  This would allow derivatives to ship their own config file to theme
  the greeter (currently, I can't theme it for Xubuntu without either
  doing some not-so-great things with dpkg-divert, or worse, sed, or
  forking the greeter just to change its settings...).

  Thanks.

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