Comment 4 for bug 15027

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Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 15:19:18 -0700
From: Steve Langasek <email address hidden>
To: era eriksson <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#303346: gdm: Suppresses X logging with "Too much output"

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severity 303346 normal
thanks

On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 10:14:52AM +0300, era eriksson wrote:
> Package: gdm
> Version: 2.6.0.4-1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: Discards error output rather than logging as requested

So which part of this "makes the package in question unusable or mostly so,
or causes data loss, or introduces a security hole allowing access to the
accounts of users who use the package"?

Refusing to log information isn't data loss if you never had it in the first
place. Given that there have been RC bugs filed repeatedly in the past
against packages for filing up the user's disk with spurious
=2Exsession-errors info, this change in GDM sounds to me like a feature, no=
t a
bug...=20

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Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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