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+tdebase (4:3.4.2-3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ *** Changes to KDM conffiles:
+
+ * Users upgrading KDM from 3.3.x, will find that KDM no longer uses the
+ /etc/trinity/kdm/Xservers file, if /etc/trinity/kdm/kdmrc was updated to
+ the version shipped with KDM 3.4.x. The package upgrade scripts
+ will not remove Xservers even if kdmrc has been upgraded, if they detect
+ local modifications. This should allow administrators to merge their
+ Xservers changes into kdmrc before themselves removing Xservers. The new
+ ServerArgsLocal key in kdmrc is where most old Xservers customizations
+ should be placed.
+
+ * Irrespective of the removal of the Xservers file, we highly recommend that
+ all administrators accept the installation of the updated kdmrc file
+ during the package upgrade. Many important changes to KDM's defaults have
+ been made, and KDM is exceedingly bad at handling anything but the latest
+ kdmrc format, so the nuissance of re-customizing KDM will likely prove
+ less than the nuissance of dealing with a KDM that isn't working properly.
+ If you have already upgraded KDM package without accepting the new kdmrc,
+ purging and reinstalling the package should achieve the desired result.
+
+ *** Changes to user login script handling:
+
+ * Another important change that users upgrading from KDM 3.3.x may notice
+ is that KDM's ability to source personal login scripts, long disabled, has
+ been restored. The exact files sourced on login will depend on the user's
+ choice of shell. For users of bash, KDM will source /etc/profile, followed
+ by ~/.bash_profile or, if that is not present, ~/.profile. Note that KDM
+ is NOT spawning a login shell, but is merely mimicking the behaviour that
+ popular shells would exhibit if they were login shells, by manually
+ sourcing the customary login scripts. /etc/trinity/kdm/Xsession controls this
+ behaviour.
+
+ * The important downside of the above approach is that KDM will utterly fail
+ to start a user's session if the newly sourced files contain certain types
+ of commands. For instance, many commands will cause the login attempt to
+ fail because they expect an interactive shell, or because you are trying
+ to "exec" something that cannot provide an X session. For instance,
+ "exec ksmserver" will launch KDE, but "exec bash" will fail. Thus if you
+ are unsure why KDM is refusing to start your session, try commenting out
+ elements of the newly sourced login scripts, and you may find the problem
+ resolved.
+
+ -- Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers <debian-qt-kde@lists.debian.org> Thu, 8 Sep 2005 11:13:41 -0400
+
+tdebase (4:3.3.2-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Users upgrading from KDE 3.2 might find that their keyboards seem no longer
+ to work in KDM. This problem is caused by a change in KDE's handling of
+ virtual terminals. The setting which puts KDM on vt7, which was contained
+ in /etc/trinity/kdm/Xservers, has changed, and is also now located in
+ /etc/trinity/kdm/kdmrc.
+
+ * Users who, when upgrading to KDE 3.3, opted to replace their Xservers file
+ with the version shipped by the package, but chose to retain their
+ /etc/trinity/kdm/kdmrc file, will thus have a KDM configuration which nowhere
+ contains a setting which properly places KDM on vt7. This can result in a
+ race condition which has the end effect of breaking the keyboard when using
+ KDM.
+
+ * The solution to the problem is either to replace both of Xservers and
+ kdmrc, or neither, when upgrading to KDE 3.3 for the first time.
+
+ * Users already stuck can, after killing KDE, purge and re-install the kdm
+ package, ensuring that the latest, fresh copies are installed.
+ Alternatively, they can edit /etc/trinity/kdm/kdmrc and add the following
+ line:
+
+ ServerVTs=-7
+
+ in the [General] section of the file.
+
+ -- Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers <debian-qt-kde@lists.debian.org> Sun, 23 Jan 2005 16:11:07 +0100