[indiana-discuss] gdm Bug 4887 - is a fix avalable?

[Rob]

> * Rob (robbyt at robbyt.net) wrote:
> > > You'd have better luck asking about
> > > the fix in desktop-discuss
> > > where the engineers who work on gdm are found.
> > 
> > but wouldn't it be cool if opensolaris/indiana
> back-ported bug fixes
> > like some other favorite community distributions? (
> cough
> > http://ubuntu.com http://centos.com
> http://debian.org )
> > 
> > Isn't that the whole point of a real distro? so
> that end users don't
> > have to follow Trunk?
> 
> You mean like the difference between the dev stream
> and stable stream
> that we're introducing with 2008.11?
> 
> http://blogs.gnome.org/gman/2008/12/02/opensolaris-rep
> ository-gets-a-makeover/
> 
> http://pkg.opensolaris.org/release/en/index.shtml
> http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev/en/index.shtml
> 
> -- 

Wow I had no idea!

The opensolaris community will be very happy to get bugs fixed in the "stable" branch without having to BFU up to a later SNV. 

Here's a good one to start with: 
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/webstack-discuss/2008-December/002500.html

And i'm sure there will be a lot of other bugs that come up after today's big release :)
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