Bug#583247: halevt: lots and lots of things

["Jonathan Lane" <jon@iol.unh.edu>]

Package: halevt
Severity: grave
Tags: sid
Justification: renders package unusable

Where do I even begin?  First, the halevt daemon kept mounting USB drives and SDHC cards as root.
Then, when I uninstalled it, the halevt user, configuration file in /etc/halevt/ and the service in /etc/init.d stayed behind.
Upon trying to reinstall, halevt complained about no configuration file.  Shouldn't it add its own if none is found?
Even though APT and dpkg are run as root, the installer doesn't automatically chown the home directory to the new user it was created for.
This is totally and completely broken.  I'm switching to PCManFM for my automounting needs until this gets fixed.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages halevt depends on:
ii  adduser                   3.112          add and remove users and groups
ii  dpkg                      1.15.5.6       Debian package management system
ii  hal                       0.5.14-2       Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  install-info              4.13a.dfsg.1-5 Manage installed documentation in 
pn  libboolstuff-0.1-0        <none>         (no description available)
ii  libc6                     2.10.2-9       Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdbus-1-3               1.2.24-1       simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2          0.86-1         simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.24.1-1       The GLib library of C routines
ii  libhal1                   0.5.14-2       Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libxml2                   2.7.7.dfsg-2   GNOME XML library

halevt recommends no packages.

halevt suggests no packages.