Bug#564719: please provide way to lock console
Hello,
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> wrote:
> On Monday 11 January 2010, Holger Levsen wrote:
>> I'll clone this bug and reassign to vlock, requesting such a udeb and
>> then make the vlock bug a blocker on this one.
>
> I do not agree with this way of doing it because now it has implicitly
> become a request for the maintainer of vlock to provide such a udeb, who
> is unlikely to have the skills to provide it.
>
> IMO a BR against vlock should only have been created *after* someone who
> has sufficient knowledge of D-I has created a proper patch for vlock and
> *after* such a patch has been tested and reviewed by the D-I team.
>
> vlock is also maybe only one possible way of implementing the feature.
> There could be others.
>
> I would prefer that the BR against vlock be closed for now. The maintainer
> of vlock should IMO not have this on his wishlist. The feature request is
> for D-I, not for vlock. It is sufficiently documented with this BR.
I also agree with Frans on that. Besides vlock needs to have a
password set and at partitioning step we still not have it done. So we
need to think how to integrate that into D-I.
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