[Piuparts-devel] Bug#547379: piuparts: --help should be possible without root permissions

[Alexander Wirt]

Package: piuparts
Version: 0.36
Severity: wishlist

Hi, 

piuparts --help
You need to be root to use piuparts.

Please only use root permissions where you really have to. 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages piuparts depends on:
ii  apt                        0.7.23.1      Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  debootstrap                1.0.15        Bootstrap a basic Debian system
ii  lsb-release                3.2-23        Linux Standard Base version report
ii  lsof                       4.81.dfsg.1-1 List open files
ii  python                     2.5.4-2       An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-debian              0.1.14        Python modules to work with Debian

piuparts recommends no packages.

Versions of packages piuparts suggests:
ii  ghostscript               8.70~dfsg-2+b1 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
pn  python-rpy                <none>         (no description available)

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