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[update request] SDDM 0.13.0 released on Nov. 4th

Bug #1516837 reported by Flames_in_Paradise
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Paulo Dias
Ubuntu ubuntu-16.04

Bug Description

Dear Developers

A new version of SDDM is available sincs Nov. 4th:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/sddm-devel

> Changelog 0.13.0:

    Greeter inherits path environment variables from parent so that themes installed in non-standard paths will work.
    Add ENABLE_PAM option to toggle PAM support at build time.
    Allow overriding textColor in ComboBox.
    Don't cast QByteArray to (char *).
    Disable greeters from loading KDE's debug hander (fix CVE-2015-0856).
    Fix multi-screen support for some setups.
    Added Serbian translation.
    Added Traditional Chinese translation.
    Improved German translation.
    Remove failsafe session entry.
    Close the pipe fd passed to X server.
    A few micro-optimizations.

> Changelog 0.12.0:

 Highlights of this release:

    BACKWARDS-INCOMPATIBLE: SDDM now depends on Qt >= 5.3
    BACKWARDS-INCOMPATIBLE: Display setup script is now killed if it hasn't finished within 30 seconds.
    LICENSING: The Maldives non-free background has been replaced by a CC-BY-SA alternative
    WAYLAND: Wayland sessions support
    CONFIG: New sddm.conf option XephyrPath (defaults to /usr/bin/Xephyr)
    CONFIG: new sddm.conf option ServerArguments (defaults to -nolisten tcp)
    CONFIG: new sddm.config option DisplayStopCommand (executes Xstop)
    THEMES: Assorted improvements to the default theme
    BUGFIX: Honor TryExec in Xsession desktop files
    BUGFIX: Fix session startup on zsh
    BUILD: Allow setting a custom DBUS_CONFIG_FILENAME at compile time
    BUILD: Allow SYSTEMD_SYSTEM_UNIT_DIR to be overridden at compile time
    BUILD: Allow QT_IMPORTS_DIR to be overridden at compile time
    BUILD: No longer hardcode min/max UIDs, allow setting UID_MIN and UID_MAX at compile time
    BUILD: Assorted FreeBSD fixes
    BUILD: Fix build warnings with Qt 5.5.
    BUILD: Enable QT_NO_CAST_FROM_ASCII
    I18N: Added Arabic, contributed by Safa Alfulaij
    I18N: Added Hungarian, contributed by @mortein79
    I18N: Various i18n updates and improvements
    I18N: Full right-to-left languages support.

Sourcecode: https://github.com/sddm/sddm/releases

Following the discussion in the dev-channel/mailing-list this has the potential to close numberous bugs here.

Thanks in advance.

Best regards

P.S.: see also https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/sddm

See original description

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Flames_in_Paradise (ellisistfroh-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Especially some multi.monitor fixes are greatly appreciated:

https://github.com/sddm/sddm/pull/511

tags: added: kubuntu upgrade-software-version xenial
Flames_in_Paradise (ellisistfroh-deactivatedaccount)
tags: added: wily
Flames_in_Paradise (ellisistfroh-deactivatedaccount)
description: updated
description: updated
Flames_in_Paradise (ellisistfroh-deactivatedaccount)
description: updated
Flames_in_Paradise (ellisistfroh-deactivatedaccount)
tags: removed: wily
Flames_in_Paradise (ellisistfroh-deactivatedaccount)
tags: added: lubuntu
Philip Muškovac (yofel)
Changed in sddm (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
milestone: none → ubuntu-16.04
status: New → Triaged
Paulo Dias (paulo-miguel-dias)
Changed in sddm (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Paulo Dias (paulo-miguel-dias)
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :
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This bug was fixed in the package sddm - 0.13.0-1ubuntu1

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sddm (0.13.0-1ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium

  * Merge with debian unstable (LP: #1519564, #1516837, #1511286)
    remaining changes:
    - keep the default-display-manager file logic in sddm.postinst
    - keep kubuntu specific patches:
      + kubuntu_nvidia-prime.diff
      + kubuntu_minimum_vt.diff instead of 03_vt7-minimum-vt.diff

sddm (0.13.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Team Upload
  [ Diane Trout ]
  * New upstream release.
  * Remove CVE-2015-0856.patch applied upstream.
  * Refresh patches.
  * Build man pages
    - Add python-docutils to Build-Depends
    - Add built man pages to sddm.install

  [ Scott Kitterman ]
  * Add missing debian/changelog entry from previous revision
  * Apply sddm.pam.diff (provided by Alf Gaida - Thanks!) and add
    libpam-systemd to sddm Recommends to fix session problems while using
    systemd while still allowing non-systemd installations (Closes: #799837,
    #806758)

sddm (0.12.0-5) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Team upload.

  [ Maximiliano Curia ]
  * Delete the sddm.log file on purge. (Closes: #793679)
  * The themes shipped with sddm need the latest version, using breaks
    instead of depends to avoid circular deps. (Closes: #800462) Thanks
    to Max Görner

  [ Matthias Klumpp ]
  * Fix deadlock in sddm.service when waiting for Plymouth to quit

  [ Scott Kitterman ]
  * Add debian/patches/CVE-2015-0856.patch to fix potential issue if an SDDM
    theme crashes while running the KDE debug handler (Closes: #803338)

sddm (0.12.0-4) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Fix indep build. (Closes: #799142) Thanks to Boris Pek

sddm (0.12.0-3) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Update service file, run after plymouth-quit-wait.
  * Re add patch: 04_set_default_path.diff

sddm (0.12.0-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Team upload
  * Ensure SDDM waits for Plymouth and getty to quit before starting
    (Closes: #793637)
  * Drop some unnecessary patches
  * Suggest libpam-kwallet5 instead of pam-kwallet5

sddm (0.12.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Team upload
  * New upstream release: 0.12.0
  * Drop patches which are applied upstream
  * Refresh and reorganize remaining patches
  * debian/rules: Compile with DBUS_CONFIG_FILENAME set to non-conflicting name
  * Ensure Xsession script is marked as executable
  * Don't fail when purging sddm

sddm (0.11.0-4) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Scott Kitterman ]
  * Team upload.
  * Add Provides: x-display-manager for sddm (Closes: 795006)

  [ Maximiliano Curia ]
  * Add the Xsession script. (Closes: #794419)
  * New patch: default_path

sddm (0.11.0-3) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Transition to libsystemd-dev. (Closes: #792400) Thanks to Michael
    Biebl
  * New patch: libsystemd.diff
  * Fix systemctl path. (Closes: #792401) Thanks to Michael Biebl
  * New patch: sddm_systemctl.diff
  * Update debian/po files. (Closes: #792085) Thanks to Christian
    Perrier

sddm (0.11.0-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Maximiliano Curia ]
  * Re-enable patches kubuntu_use_breeze.diff, kubuntu_minimum_vt.diff,
    upstream_add-graphical.target.diff.
  * Re-enable libpam-gnome-keyring.

  [ Pino To...

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Changed in sddm (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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Flames_in_Paradise (ellisistfroh-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

backport-request to 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) see bug #1531499

– leaving this note here since it's a bit tacky to find find it, as it's not associated against the package itself.

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