gdm3 - Debian Package Tracker

general

source: gdm3 (main)
version: 49.2-3
maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers (archive) (DMD)
uploaders: Laurent Bigonville [DMD] – Marco Trevisan (Treviño) [DMD] – Jeremy Bícha [DMD]
std-ver: 4.7.3
VCS: Git (Browse, QA)

versions [more versions can be listed by madison] [old versions available from snapshot.debian.org]

[pool directory]

o-o-stable: 3.38.2.1-1
oldstable: 43.0-3
stable: 48.0-2
testing: 49.2-3
unstable: 49.2-3

versioned links

3.38.2.1-1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
43.0-3: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
48.0-2: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
49.2-3: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]

binaries

gdm3 (154 bugs: 1, 129, 24, 0)
gir1.2-gdm-1.0
libgdm-dev
libgdm1 (1 bugs: 0, 1, 0, 0)

action needed

Debci reports failed tests high

unstable: fail (log)
The tests ran in 0:02:09
Last run: 2026-01-13T11:54:39.000Z
Previous status: unknown

testing: pass (log)
The tests ran in 0:01:55
Last run: 2026-01-14T19:14:18.000Z
Previous status: unknown

stable: pass (log)
The tests ran in 0:02:28
Last run: 2025-11-09T12:33:34.000Z
Previous status: unknown

Created: 2025-11-16 Last update: 2026-01-16 13:31

1 security issue in sid high

There is 1 open security issue in sid.

1 important issue:

CVE-2016-1000002: gdm3 3.14.2 and possibly later has an information leak before screen lock

Created: 2022-07-04 Last update: 2025-12-31 18:00

1 security issue in forky high

There is 1 open security issue in forky.

1 important issue:

CVE-2016-1000002: gdm3 3.14.2 and possibly later has an information leak before screen lock

Created: 2025-08-09 Last update: 2025-12-31 18:00

4 bugs tagged patch in the BTS normal

The BTS contains patches fixing 4 bugs, consider including or untagging them.

Created: 2025-01-06 Last update: 2026-01-16 14:00

Depends on packages which need a new maintainer normal

The packages that gdm3 depends on which need a new maintainer are:

docbook-xml (#802368)
- Build-Depends: docbook-xml

Created: 2023-09-01 Last update: 2026-01-16 12:00

version in VCS is newer than in repository, is it time to upload? normal

vcswatch reports that this package seems to have a new changelog entry (version 50~alpha.1-1, distribution UNRELEASED) and new commits in its VCS. You should consider whether it's time to make an upload.

Here are the relevant commit messages:

commit 57841d4b335da9a2e8f9f4f2e0d32c60632e046e
Author: Alessandro Astone <[email protected]>
Date:   Mon Jan 12 10:09:25 2026 +0100

    d/control: Bump minimum gnome-shell and gnome-session
    
    Required by the new shell mode logic

commit 01b3f7b90057ae69312a958bbb5c64ea47973eb8
Author: Alessandro Astone <[email protected]>
Date:   Mon Jan 12 09:51:14 2026 +0100

    d/symbols: Update symbols

commit 1eab9bdfb315799b91235601524f6cce0e920d32
Author: Alessandro Astone <[email protected]>
Date:   Mon Jan 12 09:44:03 2026 +0100

    d/install: Add new installed files

commit 84811e83fa7519c2a75336cae4b5dc1ebf022883
Author: Alessandro Astone <[email protected]>
Date:   Mon Jan 12 09:35:05 2026 +0100

    d/install: Cleanup non existing files

commit 3c8ccf46a2d3b8678d9475a4adea3c0d6a5b3b30
Author: Alessandro Astone <[email protected]>
Date:   Fri Jan 9 18:24:02 2026 +0100

    d/rules: Stop deleting source files in clean
    
    These are not generated files anymore.
    Furthermore, with meson they would be generated in the build directory and not
    the source directory.
    
    data/gdm.schemas is now a source file, which was incorrectly being removed.

commit 6c77671c929aeed8d53c804425beaf515c073fd6
Author: Alessandro Astone <[email protected]>
Date:   Fri Jan 9 18:10:24 2026 +0100

    d/rules: Drop unused configuration options

commit cae4a51284b1b640fa422cdcff08cae6326a28a5
Author: Alessandro Astone <[email protected]>
Date:   Fri Jan 9 17:36:15 2026 +0100

    d/p: Rebase all other patches

commit f8b4870b8683ebea7b384a8fa9b5e9d69fd548b3
Author: Alessandro Astone <[email protected]>
Date:   Thu Jan 8 18:22:57 2026 +0100

    d/p/94_retain_xorg_log.patch: Drop unused patch
    
    This patch was only affecting the rootful Xorg sessions, while GDM now only
    supports launching rootless Xorg sessions.

commit 2144c69b9fa3a4d7fa11f2809514c974c602a3da
Author: Alessandro Astone <[email protected]>
Date:   Thu Jan 8 18:21:12 2026 +0100

    d/p/16_xserver_path.patch, d/rules: Drop patch not necessary anymore
    
    GDM now looks for an X server at runtime, not at build time

commit 309f491dad1b9ff812479da152d73cde85a86b3f
Author: Alessandro Astone <[email protected]>
Date:   Thu Jan 15 17:21:09 2026 +0100

    New upstream release

commit 57a920da59cc3baf2f7b52dea7f9e0c380361098
Merge: 2644d1219 f000a9ebd
Author: Alessandro Astone <[email protected]>
Date:   Thu Jan 15 17:17:58 2026 +0100

    Merge tag 'upstream/50_alpha.1' into debian/latest
    
    Upstream version 50~alpha.1

commit 2644d1219b0aa11103a9151e057fa673beeb5af0
Author: Jeremy Bícha <[email protected]>
Date:   Sun Dec 28 09:29:54 2025 -0500

    releasing package gdm3 version 49.2-3

commit b233295b2b4c14a2e20d6f46de9dc475731cda90
Author: Jeremy Bícha <[email protected]>
Date:   Sun Dec 28 09:26:12 2025 -0500

    Remove references to mips64el
    
    no longer a Debian architecture
    https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2025/11/msg00001.html

commit aa84a8187df2cad14ad799859fbbc1f2346118f1
Author: Jeremy Bícha <[email protected]>
Date:   Sun Dec 28 09:24:19 2025 -0500

    Bump Standards Version to 4.7.3

commit dc9120f008e633163196e0d7c1255de64983635c
Author: Jeremy Bícha <[email protected]>
Date:   Sun Dec 28 09:07:55 2025 -0500

    Remove Recommends: xserver-xorg
    
    Sessions that need xorg need to depend on it themselves

commit 278ab59024dd07c004b27a755b3ec727b06b01d4
Author: Alessandro Astone <[email protected]>
Date:   Mon Dec 15 13:13:48 2025 +0100

    d/tests: Add autopkgtest verifying that the greeter registers

commit 9ea3300cabd8dbda3beacf24122b8186a7b87140
Author: Jeremy Bícha <[email protected]>
Date:   Fri Dec 12 17:34:48 2025 -0500

    Remove unnecessary direct Depends: gnome-pkg-tools
    
    already has Build-Depends: dh-sequence-gnome

commit e649a6733e078f33ceab987f3280fe7a84c8bb52
Author: Jeremy Bícha <[email protected]>
Date:   Wed Dec 3 22:34:20 2025 -0500

    releasing package gdm3 version 49.2-2

commit d7b36f8bd0e6ed2dd22cb0606a0d85f61e46afe2
Author: Jeremy Bícha <[email protected]>
Date:   Wed Dec 3 22:29:03 2025 -0500

    Remove support for DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=debug
    
    It's not listed at
    https://wiki.debian.org/BuildProfileSpec
    
    although it is in use
    https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=path%3Adebian%2Frules+debug.*DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS&literal=0
    
    It seems to be almost completely unused for meson packages:
    https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=path%3Adebian%2Frules+buildtype%3Ddebug
    
    It this is desired, I suggest adding support for it directly
    in debhelper's meson.pm so that it can easily be used for any meson package

commit 99e68dacd4f5d74e279bac9e57de18ed5184cd12
Author: Jeremy Bícha <[email protected]>
Date:   Wed Dec 3 22:15:24 2025 -0500

    Clean up debian/rules

commit 3b50474268ca901a24a0ad4ddde0622574d30c05
Author: Alessandro Astone <[email protected]>
Date:   Tue Aug 5 09:44:51 2025 +0200

    d/control: Drop dependency on dbus-daemon
    
    With GDM switching the greeter to dynamic systemd users, it no longer uses
    dbus-run-session to start a dbus session.

commit a2d0f92f6775ca70dcffe30c0213072657a24df6
Author: Jeremy Bícha <[email protected]>
Date:   Mon Nov 24 19:51:08 2025 -0500

    releasing package gdm3 version 49.2-1

commit a031f3f3000ee4e10a11650c02a4bbb0aeafce03
Author: Jeremy Bícha <[email protected]>
Date:   Mon Nov 24 19:48:02 2025 -0500

    Remove obsolete details from README.Debian
    
    Remove a lot of X11 specific details
    
    In particular we no longer provide custom-x11-session.desktop
    
    There still is
    yelp help:system-admin-guide/session-custom
    
    but it recommends creating an X11 session to run GNOME Classic
    which won't work since GNOME and GNOME Classic are Wayland only

commit 8913ae4049151e87ad16edce7b5b902c9128772e
Author: Jeremy Bícha <[email protected]>
Date:   Mon Nov 24 19:38:25 2025 -0500

    Remove obsolete Conflicts/Replaces

commit 0c153181efd457b84fe7cc4fcf7ac9dbc9accafc
Author: Jeremy Bícha <[email protected]>
Date:   Mon Nov 24 19:38:11 2025 -0500

    Fix some build warnings

commit dbd6b57ae045a8656efefd86bbff92e1d5334319
Author: Jeremy Bícha <[email protected]>
Date:   Mon Nov 24 19:37:31 2025 -0500

    Remove obsolete Rules-Requires-Root: no field
    
    default since trixie

commit 45fce0ce03f750bc5b01b5a7bb1544848183a2fb
Author: Jeremy Bícha <[email protected]>
Date:   Fri Nov 7 12:35:10 2025 -0500

    Use upstream's Xsession file (with some patching as mentioned above)
    
    Closes: #1120328

commit 523df8b36bc9e539b31dfaa977a505c50730cc18
Author: Jeremy Bícha <[email protected]>
Date:   Fri Nov 7 13:10:21 2025 -0500

    Fix what appears to be a mistake in the Xresources patch description

commit ce7910753d066e9483f2eaac77a06706c205fcac
Author: Jeremy Bícha <[email protected]>
Date:   Fri Nov 7 13:08:19 2025 -0500

    Add patch from Ubuntu to handle /etc/X11/Xresources/*

commit cbbf5b10f311e70f41b3c896146d6a3a866d0675
Author: Jeremy Bícha <[email protected]>
Date:   Fri Nov 7 13:03:54 2025 -0500

    Add patch from Ubuntu to use x-terminal-emulator instead of xterm

commit dd3a989489d4c84092c348dc9d2989107e9ef5cb
Author: Jeremy Bícha <[email protected]>
Date:   Fri Nov 7 12:39:06 2025 -0500

    Add patch from Ubuntu to have Xsession run scripts from /etc/X11/Xsession.d

commit 23a177311dfcc5c5ed3b5e8659d3599b1d0fa738
Author: Jeremy Bícha <[email protected]>
Date:   Fri Nov 7 12:29:26 2025 -0500

    Add patch to support Debian's Xsession.options.d

commit 7c430f77bcffb6c85ea8a32a38eeb5e8e8a19e98
Author: Jeremy Bícha <[email protected]>
Date:   Mon Nov 24 19:32:02 2025 -0500

    New upstream release

commit 965d99e83d771a7478a7b5bfcaaa98431eac08b5
Merge: 632e895fe 01c29137a
Author: Jeremy Bícha <[email protected]>
Date:   Mon Nov 24 19:32:02 2025 -0500

    Update upstream source from tag 'upstream/49.2'
    
    Update to upstream version '49.2'
    with Debian dir 45b77b8c2bd1e6890527d23596fdea0a2b4eb601

commit 632e895fee746e4f8dfd2200aa563021d16ab067
Author: Jeremy Bícha <[email protected]>
Date:   Mon Nov 24 19:31:26 2025 -0500

    Update changelog

commit 8226392c423c813d49718970db306121441c9940
Author: Jeremy Bícha <[email protected]>
Date:   Fri Nov 7 06:00:05 2025 -0500

    Disable xdmcp; this feature is being removed for GNOME 50 anyway
    
    xdmcp has been removed for GNOME 50
    https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/-/merge_requests/327
    
    An alternative is using gnome-remote-desktop which has allowed
    for headless remote access using RDP since GNOME 46
    
    You can read technical details of that feature at
    https://www.suse.com/c/headless-remote-sessions-in-gnome-part-1/

commit da6d202512bcfedbe18d7ec64a657aa7a1229d24
Author: Jeremy Bícha <[email protected]>
Date:   Thu Nov 6 18:56:17 2025 -0500

    Remove obsolete Recommends: xserver-xephyr
    
    Closes: #792220

commit 57ea851576ac84cc5f37c6ffd8cf7835872355d6
Author: Simon McVittie <[email protected]>
Date:   Fri Oct 31 19:14:47 2025 +0000

    Release to unstable

commit b830860e2f8c193fae13c2a0072f89512a58d4b1
Author: Simon McVittie <[email protected]>
Date:   Fri Oct 31 18:54:13 2025 +0000

    d/Xsession, d/gdm3.install, d/rules: Restore ability to launch X11 sessions
    
    Commit 11802ed9 "Completely stop providing Debian custom xsession support"
    removed the example of a non-package-manager-provided X11 session, but
    also removed the ability to launch X11 sessions at all: all sessions
    that do not have X-GDM-BypassXsession in their .desktop file require
    an Xsession script, which was historically provided by Debian rather
    than by upstream. Restore that functionality.
    
    In a future upload we should look at whether we can use /etc/X11/Xsession
    as-is, but let's get the GNOME 49 transition done first.

commit 5661fef69fb303cff48b602a980db111e8f02f10
Author: Simon McVittie <[email protected]>
Date:   Fri Oct 31 18:12:15 2025 +0000

    Release to unstable

commit 52647047af0b0e12b2e63cc0d3b871aa0925857a
Author: Simon McVittie <[email protected]>
Date:   Fri Oct 31 18:11:18 2025 +0000

    d/control: Increase gnome-session-{bin,common} dependency to 49
    
    The new version of gdm doesn't start successfully with the old
    gnome-session. The new gnome-session-bin already Breaks the older gdm3,
    but the new gdm3 didn't yet force installation of the new gnome-session.
    
    Closes: #1119809

commit 91c63a07ae526e230e59d10fe6ec235e62683ca3
Author: Simon McVittie <[email protected]>
Date:   Fri Oct 31 10:53:25 2025 +0000

    Release to unstable (transition: #1116394)

commit 62958a0f18fb5df915184afffb401dfbcfa9aa35
Author: Simon McVittie <[email protected]>
Date:   Mon Oct 27 16:51:40 2025 +0000

    Release to experimental

commit aff7f3c110b1787ca6d12d7d4470052786e8bcb0
Author: Simon McVittie <[email protected]>
Date:   Mon Oct 27 16:51:08 2025 +0000

    d/control: Remove :native annotation from dconf-cli
    
    Now that dconf-cli is Multi-Arch: foreign, this is unsatisfiable.
    
    This partially reverts commit da3e7f13fafa44de31780bdb8fe019906c569d94.

commit bcde741729a603537066d48dce8b8db88ad0786f
Author: Simon McVittie <[email protected]>
Date:   Mon Oct 27 15:18:35 2025 +0000

    Release to experimental

commit c4d4b92c728fdffd9351fbb10eeac516014d75cc
Author: Simon McVittie <[email protected]>
Date:   Mon Oct 27 14:08:48 2025 +0000

    d/greeter.dconf-defaults: Mention the accent colour option
    
    When we reach the forky freeze and background/branding images become
    available in desktop-base, we might want to set this to a coordinating
    colour (see #1105056). Until then, leave the default commented-out.

commit c7b4ad97e6564df69491629fe5b99240688cde2a
Author: Simon McVittie <[email protected]>
Date:   Mon Oct 27 14:07:24 2025 +0000

    d/greeter.dconf-defaults: Improve documentation a bit

commit ba9f892b615aab2ebf8238cfc9a192449de47220
Author: Simon McVittie <[email protected]>
Date:   Mon Oct 27 13:50:11 2025 +0000

    d/control: Depend on a version of libnss-systemd with #1118640 fixed
    
    Otherwise, looking up the gdm-greeter* dynamic users in shadow/gshadow
    will not work on systems that were installed as Debian 11 or older, and
    then upgraded.
    
    Closes: #1116563, #1118454
    LP: #2121017

commit 77925c70b67ae33535fb2694a22a90b61345513b
Author: Simon McVittie <[email protected]>
Date:   Tue Oct 14 10:28:54 2025 +0100

    Release to experimental

commit 55e67f86fabf39df7e5abb297d32c0a1b1d073d8
Author: Simon McVittie <[email protected]>
Date:   Tue Oct 14 10:26:49 2025 +0100

    Update changelog

Created: 2026-01-15 Last update: 2026-01-15 18:01

lintian reports 3 warnings normal

Lintian reports 3 warnings about this package. You should make the package lintian clean getting rid of them.

Created: 2025-12-29 Last update: 2025-12-29 07:01

Issues found with some translations low

Automatic checks made by the Debian l10n team found some issues with the translations contained in this package. You should check the l10n status report for more information.

Issues can be things such as missing translations, problematic translated strings, outdated PO files, unknown languages, etc.

Created: 2025-12-29 Last update: 2025-12-29 12:00

debian/patches: 6 patches to forward upstream low

Among the 10 debian patches available in version 49.2-3 of the package, we noticed the following issues:

6 patches where the metadata indicates that the patch has not yet been forwarded upstream. You should either forward the patch upstream or update the metadata to document its real status.

Created: 2023-02-26 Last update: 2025-12-29 06:00

No known security issue in trixie wishlist

There is 1 open security issue in trixie.

1 ignored issue:

CVE-2016-1000002: gdm3 3.14.2 and possibly later has an information leak before screen lock

Created: 2023-06-11 Last update: 2025-12-31 18:00

No known security issue in bookworm wishlist

There is 1 open security issue in bookworm.

1 ignored issue:

CVE-2016-1000002: gdm3 3.14.2 and possibly later has an information leak before screen lock

Created: 2023-06-10 Last update: 2025-12-31 18:00

news

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[2026-01-01] gdm3 49.2-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-12-28] Accepted gdm3 49.2-3 (source) into unstable (Jeremy Bícha)
[2025-12-07] gdm3 49.2-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-12-04] Accepted gdm3 49.2-2 (source) into unstable (Jeremy Bícha)
[2025-11-27] gdm3 49.2-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-11-25] Accepted gdm3 49.2-1 (source) into unstable (Jeremy Bícha)
[2025-11-06] gdm3 49.1-6 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-10-31] Accepted gdm3 49.1-6 (source) into unstable (Simon McVittie)
[2025-10-31] Accepted gdm3 49.1-5 (source) into unstable (Simon McVittie)
[2025-10-31] Accepted gdm3 49.1-4 (source) into unstable (Simon McVittie)
[2025-10-27] Accepted gdm3 49.1-3 (source) into experimental (Simon McVittie)
[2025-10-27] Accepted gdm3 49.1-2 (source) into experimental (Simon McVittie)
[2025-10-14] Accepted gdm3 49.1-1 (source) into experimental (Simon McVittie)
[2025-09-17] Accepted gdm3 49.0.1-1 (source) into experimental (Jeremy Bícha)
[2025-08-21] gdm3 48.0-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-08-15] Accepted gdm3 48.0-3 (source) into unstable (Simon McVittie)
[2025-07-20] gdm3 48.0-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-07-13] Accepted gdm3 48.0-2 (source) into unstable (Simon McVittie)
[2025-03-23] gdm3 48.0-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-03-17] Accepted gdm3 48.0-1 (source) into unstable (Jeremy Bícha) (signed by: Jeremy Bicha)
[2025-02-17] gdm3 48~beta-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-02-10] Accepted gdm3 48~beta-1 (source) into unstable (Jeremy Bícha) (signed by: Jeremy Bicha)
[2025-02-10] gdm3 47.0-4 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-02-05] Accepted gdm3 47.0-4 (source) into unstable (Jeremy Bícha) (signed by: Jeremy Bicha)
[2024-10-17] gdm3 47.0-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-09-21] Accepted gdm3 47.0-3 (source) into unstable (Simon McVittie)
[2024-09-18] Accepted gdm3 47.0-2 (source) into unstable (Jeremy Bícha) (signed by: Jeremy Bicha)
[2024-09-16] Accepted gdm3 47.0-1 (source) into experimental (Marco Trevisan (Treviño)) (signed by: Marco Trevisan)
[2024-07-06] gdm3 46.2-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-07-01] Accepted gdm3 46.2-1 (source) into unstable (Jeremy Bícha) (signed by: Jeremy Bicha)

bugs [bug history graph]

all: 159
RC: 1
I&N: 132
M&W: 26
F&P: 0
patch: 4

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version: 49.2-1ubuntu4
113 bugs (1 patch)
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