[LightDM] locking broken in lightdm >=1.7.5 blocks light-locker release

[Simon Steinbeiß]

Hi everyone,

I really don't wanna send bugreports via the mailinglist, but I wanted to add some information that isn't (and probably shouldn't be) contained in our bugreport to lightdm. We're currently looking towards releasing the first stable version of light-locker[1], a tool we have mentioned on this list before.

Since 1.7.5 locking is broken in lightdm [2], so it doesn't make much sense for us to release a stable version of light-locker. (Ubuntu Saucy for example already ships 1.7.9, so light-locker would be completely useless there.)

We also wanted to ask you about the schedule for the final 1.8 release to ease our planning ahead. It would be good to know whether this bug is critical enough for you guys to make it a blocker for the stable 1.8 release.

Cheers,
Simon


[1] https://github.com/the-cavalry/light-locker
[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm/+bug/1209107