Nice one,
I'd say it's worth keeping around for a while as it doesn't have any gnomish dependencies.
Cheers,
chillfan
On Monday, May 30, 2016 12:01 AM, Daniel Reurich <daniel@???> wrote:
> On 30/05/16 07:37, dev1fanboy wrote:
>> To add my two cents..
>>
>> Since it's an important package, maybe it's worth seeing if someone can
>> whip up a patch if there isn't already.
>>
> I'll look into it as I have a patch or to so that it will work nicely
> with our desktop-base package as well.
>
> There are a few pull requests against the gitlab archive
> https://github.com/data-modul/slim which I can look at integrating
>
> I think whilst it's not ideal, it is the easiest option for us to
> maintain as the default for the Jessie release and probably keep around
> for ascii until we find a better solution.
>
> Regards
> Daniel.
>
>
>> Also worth pointing out that lilo is without an upstream maintainer as
>> of recently.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> chillfan
>>
>> On Tuesday, May 24, 2016 3:08 PM, Irrwahn <irrwahn@???> wrote:
>>> To the Devs in charge, and to whom it may concern.
>>>
>>> I just filed an issue against the Devuan slim package,
>>> requesting its removal from future Devuan releases.
>>>
>>> Full quote below signature.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Urban
>>>
>>> -------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>
>>> Request for Removal of slim package from Devuan
>>>
>>> I hereby request that the slim package, containing the SLiM
>>> Simple Login Manager, be removed from future releases of Devuan,
>>> at least from the Jessie and testing suites. It may have its place
>>> in unstable for the time being.
>>>
>>> The reasoning that leads to this appeal is as follows:
>>>
>>> 1. It has no upstream.
>>> The project has evidently been abandoned, the homepage was
>>> taken off the web, leaving behind a stale github mirror that
>>> as of today carries only a README file dated from 2016-04-12,
>>> containing the following information, verbatim quote:
>>> "Note: This repository was used as backup source and is no
>>> longer maintained." [1]
>>>
>>> 2. SLiM has various apparent issues, notably:
>>> * not playing nice with X session managers
>>> * being unable to preserve the last chosen session between
>>> logins
>>> * it is a nuisance to provide user support for
>>>
>>> 3. It has already been removed from Debian testing and unstable
>>> (sic!).
>>> There is reason to suspect it would have been removed from Debian
>>> 8,
>>> were it not for the early Jessie freeze on 2014-11-05.
>>>
>>> 4. The Devuan package appears orphaned, the code has not been touched
>>> for about a year. Considering its upstream is no longer maintained
>>> either, the package might impose a security risk not tenable for a
>>> stable release.
>>>
>>> [1] Cf. https://github.com/data-modul/slim
>>>
>>>
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