Re: Paternalistic D-Bus Restrictions (was Re: 'Applications, Accessories, Root Terminal' fails silently)

[Patrick Wiseman <pwiseman@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Osamu Aoki<osamu@debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 08:59:59AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
>> The problem is, I think, that someone upstream thinks that this
>> limitation is a feature not a bug, and so it's unlikely to get fixed.
>
> I am not the right person to judge this.  It may be a right decision and
> it is a feature.
>
> But advanced cordination with popular existing tools should have
> happened before implimenting this feature for sure.
>
> Well, this is typical when using "unstable".  At this moment, we do not
> even have testing security support.  You should see quite a bit of these
> despite we most DD tries to keep such incident as few as possible.

Just as an aside, I'm on a testing system, and just got two security
updates this morning.

Patrick