dbus upgrade issue

[Thiago Macieira]

Havoc Pennington wrote:
>In case other distributions encounter this issue, I had a private
>conversation with Ray where he was going to try having a post-logout
>script that updated the config file instead of simply including a new
>config file. Ray maybe you should post whether this works and how you
>did it.
>
>Also fwiw talked to Owen about this today (after he hit the bug) and his
>suggestion was the rename the file solution, specifically rename
>session.conf to session2.conf, ship both in the RPM, have session.conf
>be the backward-compatible one with a big comment in it "THIS CONFIG
>FILE IS IGNORED, USE session2.conf" and point the new dbus-daemon at
>session2.conf as the default config file. Owen felt that /usr/share
>wasn't right, citing fontconfig as another example where a config file
>is in /etc even though few local sites would change it.

So we are instituting the policy of incrementing the file version number 
every time we add a new XML tag to it? Won't people find bizarre soon 
enough that our config file is called session36.conf?

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