LightDM - Sep 2014 - Newer version of lightdm for 14.04.1 -- is this possible?

Are there any plans to backport a newer version of lightdm for 14.04 LTS?  The 
current version (1.10.1-0ubuntu1) is 'broken' -- specificly it does not 
auto-re-login (autologin only works the *first* time, never after the user 
logs out).  I believe this is fixed in 1.11 (and later).  I don't want to 
upgrade to 14.10 and land on the upgrade-every-9-months roller coaster.  I 
would like to stay with 14.04 LTS for its full 5 years and enjoy a stable 
system (except for lightdm being broken).  (There are some issues with the 
Unity greeter, but I suspect using an alternitive greeter will fix that.)

-- 
Robert Heller             -- 978-544-6933
Deepwoods Software        -- Custom Software Services
http://www.deepsoft.com/  -- Linux Administration Services
heller at deepsoft.com       -- Webhosting Services

14.04 LTS will continue to receive updates in the LightDM 1.10 series [1].
This series contains important bugfixes and occasional backports of new
features that can be added without modifying existing behaviours. All
updates to 14.04 LTS need to go through the Stable Release Update process
[2] which means features need to be carefully tested.

--Robert

[1] https://launchpad.net/lightdm/1.10
[2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates

On 28 September 2014 09:39, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
> Are there any plans to backport a newer version of lightdm for 14.04 LTS?
> The
> current version (1.10.1-0ubuntu1) is 'broken' -- specificly it does
not
> auto-re-login (autologin only works the *first* time, never after the user
> logs out).  I believe this is fixed in 1.11 (and later).  I don't want
to
> upgrade to 14.10 and land on the upgrade-every-9-months roller coaster.  I
> would like to stay with 14.04 LTS for its full 5 years and enjoy a stable
> system (except for lightdm being broken).  (There are some issues with the
> Unity greeter, but I suspect using an alternitive greeter will fix that.)
>
> --
> Robert Heller             -- 978-544-6933
> Deepwoods Software        -- Custom Software Services
> http://www.deepsoft.com/  -- Linux Administration Services
> heller at deepsoft.com       -- Webhosting Services
>
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