Re: Bug#405997: should executables be permitted to update themselves?

2007-01-16 Thread Shaun Jackman
On 1/15/07, Michael Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... the user did not initiate the action. azureus went out and checked for updates, then told the user that they should update. and it does this every time the application starts up unless the user chooses to update (at that point, i don't

Re: Bug#405997: should executables be permitted to update themselves?

2007-01-16 Thread Shaun Jackman
On 1/15/07, Jamin W. Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... After relaunching for the update the following error (not present prior to the update appeared): Error SWT library loaded from "/usr/share/java" can't be automatically updated from version 3235 to 3318 (must be loaded from "/home/jcolli

Re: Bug#405997: should executables be permitted to update themselves?

2007-01-15 Thread Shaun Jackman
On 1/14/07, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... If azereus is going out and adding things to the users home dir without the users knowledge, that would be one thing. But in this case the users has initiated the action -- and trying to save the user from themselves is not on

Re: Bug#405997: should executables be permitted to update themselves?

2007-01-14 Thread Shaun Jackman
On 1/14/07, Linas Žvirblis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Gilbert wrote: > is there a policy on whether an executable is permitted to update > itself? Not sure about The Policy, but I can see a lot of reasons why this should not be done: 1. T

Bug#361418: [Proposal] new Debian menu structure

2006-04-09 Thread Shaun Jackman
Is it possible to make use of freedesktop.org's standardization of menu layout within Debian? If we find their standard lacking, could we lobby them for improvements similar to those listed here? This work is certainly an improvement. Thanks, Shaun On 4/8/06, Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr