Hi Daniel, I'm not maintaining the software you're having issues with. I'm merely playing janitor for rc bugs said to be affecting wheezy. So out of 273 of those, I moved 140 away, so that people trying to actually fix bugs in wheezy have a much better list to look at. Out of those 140 moved away there was one leading to some discussion...
http://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi?release=wheezy&rc=1 in case you are interested. On Dienstag, 4. Juni 2013, Daniel Pocock wrote: > > thats a gnome desktop? > Yes, it is a default gnome desktop (I log in with Gnome classic) ic > > I agree but I thats wishlist or so. > If it is a "wishlist" item, why did you just close it without any > correspondence with the bug reporter rather than simply changing priority? because I mostly thought "WOW" about the ridiculousness of the severity and labeling a feature a bug. This blew me away, literally, so that only after a while I could see some wishlist value in the bug. Also, *you* could also equally reopen, retitle and reassign the bug. But then, please see http://blog.liw.fi/posts/wishlist-bugs/ ... > Popups spontaneously asking for the root password in order to make > unidentified changes to the system? If users start putting in their > root password for random popups, it undermines the whole concept of UNIX > security. It won't be long before some phishing attack is developed > that produces a Javascript popup resembling the root packagekit popup. > > I saw this again on a desktop today, it was completely spontaneous and > wasn't triggered by the connection of a USB device as it is on the laptop. > > You haven't provided any evidence that this is in fact a feature - is it > being tracked upstream or elsewhere? Frankly, I have no idea. I remember http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lets_make_hardware_dongles_easier_to_use_in_Debian.html and http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/isenkram/ And there is http://wiki.debian.org/HardwareAutodetection > I attach a screenshot of the offending popup. There you have it: packagekit, systemupdate. It runs apt-get update + apt-get upgrade for you. So there has been a DSA (when then popup came even though you plugged nothing into the desktop). Business as usual, a sensible default. If you dont like it, "apt-get remove gnome" is one choice, there are others. Pick yours. debian-users@l.d.o is a suitable forum for this, I believe. cheers, Holger
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