Bug#708548: trying to make unrequested update to system

[Michael Biebl]

Just to provide some additional background information.

The reason why those authentication popups are triggered is Bug #606092 [1]

As a result of this bug report, the packagekit policy was changed to
require admin priviliges to do system updates.

gnome-settings-daemon though expects that such updates can be done
silently/unattended, i.e. without user interaction. See also the comment
in [2]

So, what Joss has done is disable the auto-updates in gnome-settings-daemon.

Michael


[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=606092
[2]
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-packagekit/packagekit.git;a=blob;f=policy/org.freedesktop.packagekit.policy.in;h=28ab3b14140b064647f100cf94d3ff5370fb0ebc;hb=HEAD#l122
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