Bug#689854: RFA: pmount -- mount removable devices as normal user

[Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>]

On Sun, 07 Oct 2012 at 10:44:44 +0200, Vincent Fourmond wrote:
> The package description is:
>  pmount is a wrapper around the standard mount program which permits normal
>  users to mount removable devices without a matching /etc/fstab entry. This
>  provides a robust basis for automounting frameworks like GNOME's Utopia
>  project and confines the amount of code that runs as root to a minimum.

It might be worth noting that GNOME, LXDE and XFCE in at least wheezy do not
use pmount (they all appear to use udisks via gvfs), and neither does KDE
(it appears to use udisks via Solid).

Only a few things still depend on pmount:

* libpam-usb (Depends)
* usbmount (Recommends)
* jsymphonic, udftools (Suggests)

so perhaps the maintainer of one of those would be interested in taking
over pmount?

    S