Bug#575309: user-setup: Should stop adding first user to device access groups

2010-03-25 Thread Chris Bell
On Thu 25 Mar, Joey Hess wrote: > Frans Pop wrote: > > I disagree with this proposed change. IMO the default group assignments are > > in line with the purpose of the first user account. > > I have three reasons to feel otherwise: > > 1. IIRC, the reason for adding the initial user to groups has

Re: parted unblock, and upcoming transition

2010-03-25 Thread Philipp Kern
Colin, On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 11:38:07PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 03:55:41PM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 06:15:58PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > > The API version (libparted-2.1-dev, etc.) was used before upstream > > > started setting a pr

Re: parted unblock, and upcoming transition

2010-03-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:49:40AM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: > On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 11:38:07PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 03:55:41PM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: > > > On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 06:15:58PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > > > The API version (libparted-2.1-

Re: parted unblock, and upcoming transition

2010-03-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:49:40AM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: > That still leaves gnu-fdisk (parted team maintained) Oops; I'll follow up on this. > and partitioner (mips only, d-boot maintained). Committed to Subversion, but needs a mips machine to upload it. gabrielli would do; can you install

Re: parted unblock, and upcoming transition

2010-03-25 Thread Philipp Kern
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 01:01:06PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > and partitioner (mips only, d-boot maintained). > Committed to Subversion, but needs a mips machine to upload it. > gabrielli would do; can you install these build-dependencies, or should > I go ask DSA? It seems that DSA is not yet

Sudo mode and policykit

2010-03-25 Thread Josselin Mouette
Hi, currently, depending on the “sudo mode” which is set during installation, d-i configures gksu to use sudo mode by default (with a GConf key). However, an increasing number of packages use policykit instead of gksu to obtain root access, so we need some changes on this matter. Actually there

Re: Sudo mode and policykit

2010-03-25 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 25.03.2010 23:34, schrieb Josselin Mouette: > Actually there are two very simple solutions, so it is really a matter > of what design you prefer. > 1. (Stolen from Ubuntu) Create a new “admin” group, modify > policykit to accept self-authentication for all members of the >

Bug#575456: [d-i squeeze alpha1: L10N] loading firmware: untranslated dialog

2010-03-25 Thread Holger Wansing
Package: debian-installer Performing an alpha1 installation in german language, I got an untranslated dialog related to loading firmware (but I think I have debian-installer fully translated to german, 100% - no untranslated strings): When the kernel got installed, I got this message: (the first

Bug#575456: marked as done ([d-i squeeze alpha1: L10N] loading firmware: untranslated dialog)

2010-03-25 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:42:21 +0100 with message-id <201003260042.22332.elen...@planet.nl> and subject line Re: Bug#575456: [d-i squeeze alpha1: L10N] loading firmware: untranslated dialog has caused the Debian Bug report #575456, regarding [d-i squeeze alpha1: L10N] loading firmwar

Re: Sudo mode and policykit

2010-03-25 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi! On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: > Speaking as policykit maintainer, I have to say that I generally like > the idea of such an "admin" group and thus would prefer 1.). Speaking as a user and sysadmin, I also prefer the group approach. But I dislike having to add yet anot

Error while building d-i

2010-03-25 Thread vikram
hi, I did a check out  of d-i source from  svn://svn.d-i.alioth.debian.org/svn/d-i/trunk/installer I followed the instructions in installer/build/README dpkg-checkbuilddeps - done, when i build d-i i get the following error: --- E

Re: Sudo mode and policykit

2010-03-25 Thread Michael Biebl
On 26.03.2010 01:21, Margarita Manterola wrote: > The amount of groups that a users needs to belong to in order to get > the best experience from their computer is growing and growing. This Actually, I personally tried to work against this trend. The groups plugdev/powerdev/netdev, which primar

Re: Sudo mode and policykit

2010-03-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 09:21:58PM -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote: > On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: > > Speaking as policykit maintainer, I have to say that I generally like > > the idea of such an "admin" group and thus would prefer 1.). > Speaking as a user and sysadmi