[Oneiric-Topic] Packaging branches

2011-04-10 Thread Robert Ancell
We currently maintain most Ubuntu Desktop packages in bzr branches and use bzr-builddeb in merge mode [1] with packaging stored in lp:~ubuntu-desktop/package_name/ubuntu. The other option was to use normal mode [2], but this was not chosen at the time due to the size of checkouts. My experience

Re: [Oneiric-Topic] LightDM for display management

2011-04-10 Thread Robert Ancell
On 04/08/2011 07:42 PM, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: Le vendredi 08 avril 2011 à 19:04 +0930, Jason Warner a écrit : Thanks for proposing this. I'm particularly interested in any and all speed improvements that could come from this...and if we have less overhead in general, great! If you're

Re: [Oneiric-Topic] LightDM for display management

2011-04-10 Thread James Westby
On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 19:02:35 +1000, Robert Ancell robert.anc...@canonical.com wrote: Last cycle I proposed using LightDM to replace GDM [1]. It was deferred due to the Unity work, so time to repropose! The main reasons for switching are: - Simpler code to maintain (GDM is a huge ~50,000

Re: [Oneiric-Topic] GTK3/GNOME3

2011-04-10 Thread Christopher James Halse Rogers
On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 09:12 +1000, Robert Ancell wrote: On 04/07/2011 05:59 PM, Martin Pitt wrote: Hello all, kind of obvious topic, but next cycle we'll need to move to GTK3 and GNOME3. Aside from the obvious update the package versions, I see the following particular challenges: