Bug#311109: gnome-applets: SUID handling via debconf for cpufreq-applet

[Andrew Lau]

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Package: gnome-applets
Version: 2.10.1-2
Severity: normal
Tags: experimental

Hi Marc,

Please copy across the Debconf translations and scripts that I wrote for
gnome-cpufreq-applet over to gnome-applets. Disabling the SUID handling
altogether and hoping that the user is smart enough to read the README
goes against the "It should just work" philosophy of GNOME.
dpkg-statoverride isn't exactly the friendliest tool to be asking users
to use in the first place.

And if you are worried about contributing to excess Debconf questions
during a fresh install, then you could at least only ask the SUID
question if the /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq directory is
present and prepopulating debconf with "false" should that directory be
absent.

Cheers,
Andrew Lau

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-1-k7
Locale: LANG=3Den_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=3Den_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=3DUTF-8)

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