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[Lionel Le Folgoc <lionel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lightdm 0.9.2 uploaded in oneiric today has added support for what
Martin described. Thanks, that's appreciated. :)

> - Config changes:
> [...]
>   - The default user session is now "default".  Distributions should put a
>     symlink to their chosen default or set one in lightdm.conf.
> [...]
> * debian/lightdm.conf:
>  - Removed, no longer needs configuration

Now, if I try to sum up, derivatives will want to use alternatives for:
- /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
- /usr/share/xsessions/default.desktop

I don't think it will work very well if a package ships these files
directly instead of using update-alternatives, but if everyone agrees,
it shouldn't happen...

Unfortunately, this upload introduced new issues:
- /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf is not shipped anymore by lightdm, but apparently hasn't been cleaned on upgrades with rm_conffile, so it's still here for existing oneiric systems...
- a new conffile has been introduced /etc/lightdm/users.conf. Hopefully we won't need to change it per derivative? Otherwise we're back to the same issue, again...

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/799754

Title:
  Please let vendors easily provide their own config

Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: lightdm

  Hi,

  Could you register lightdm.conf in the alternatives system? This would
  let derivatives set another default config easily (as done with gdm),
  and avoid the dpkg-divert nightmare that is going with gdm3.

  (currently, daily builds of xubuntu don't start any session because
  lightdm tries to start gnome which doesn't exist...)

  Thanks.

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