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has caused the Debian Bug report #679160,
regarding gdm3: /usr/share/gdm/applications leftover on upgrade
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679160: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=679160
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: gdm3
Version: 3.4.1-1
Severity: normal
Hi.
On upgrade, the directory /usr/share/gdm/applications was left over stale
as it contained some other config file (mimeinfo.cache) which hasn't been
removed correctly:
Preparing to replace gdm3 3.0.4-4 (using .../gdm3_3.4.1-1_amd64.deb) ...
Obsolete conffile /etc/gdm3/greeter.gconf-defaults has been modified by you.
Saving as /etc/gdm3/greeter.gconf-defaults.dpkg-bak ...
Unpacking replacement gdm3 ...
dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/usr/share/gdm/applications':
Directory not empt
y
Cheers,
Chris.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.20-heisenberg (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages gdm3 depends on:
ii accountsservice 0.6.21-5
ii adduser 3.113+nmu3
ii dconf-gsettings-backend 0.12.1-2
ii dconf-tools 0.12.1-2
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.44
ii dpkg 1.16.4.3
ii gir1.2-freedesktop 1.32.1-1
ii gir1.2-glib-2.0 1.32.1-1
ii gnome-session [x-session-manager] 3.4.2.1-1
ii gnome-session-bin 3.4.2.1-1
ii gnome-session-fallback [x-session-manager] 3.4.2.1-1
ii gnome-settings-daemon 3.4.2-3
ii gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator] 3.4.1.1-1
ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.4.2-1
ii libaccountsservice0 0.6.21-5
ii libatk1.0-0 2.4.0-2
ii libattr1 1:2.4.46-8
ii libaudit0 1:1.7.18-1.1
ii libc6 2.13-33
ii libcairo-gobject2 1.10.2-7
ii libcairo2 1.10.2-7
ii libcanberra-gtk3-0 0.28-4
ii libcanberra0 0.28-4
ii libdbus-1-3 1.6.0-1
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.100-1
ii libfontconfig1 2.9.0-6
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.26.1-1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.32.3-1
ii libglib2.0-bin 2.32.3-1
ii libgtk-3-0 3.4.2-1
ii libpam-modules 1.1.3-7.1
ii libpam-runtime 1.1.3-7.1
ii libpam0g 1.1.3-7.1
ii libpango1.0-0 1.30.0-1
ii librsvg2-common 2.36.1-1
ii libselinux1 2.1.9-5
ii libupower-glib1 0.9.17-1
ii libwrap0 7.6.q-23
ii libx11-6 2:1.5.0-1
ii libxau6 1:1.0.7-1
ii libxdmcp6 1:1.1.1-1
ii libxklavier16 5.2.1-1
ii libxrandr2 2:1.3.2-2
ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian7
ii metacity [x-window-manager] 1:2.34.3-2
ii policykit-1-gnome 0.105-2
ii upower 0.9.17-1
ii x11-common 1:7.7+1
ii x11-xserver-utils 7.7~3
ii xterm [x-terminal-emulator] 278-1
Versions of packages gdm3 recommends:
ii desktop-base 7.0.0
ii gnome-icon-theme 3.4.0-2
ii libatk-adaptor [at-spi] 2.5.2-1
ii x11-xkb-utils 7.7~1
ii xserver-xephyr 2:1.12.1.902-1
ii xserver-xorg 1:7.7+1
ii zenity 3.4.0-2
Versions of packages gdm3 suggests:
ii gnome-mag 1:0.16.3-1
ii gnome-orca 3.4.2-2
ii gnome-shell 3.4.1-8
ii gok 2.30.0-1
ii libpam-gnome-keyring 3.4.1-4
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/gdm3/greeter.gsettings changed [not included]
-- debconf information excluded
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
There have been many changes to Debian since this bug was originally
reported. If you are still experiencing this issue with Debian 13 (or
with Debian 12 or Testing or Unstable), please report a new bug.
Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha
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