[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#352713: base-passwd: Please add netdev and powerdev groups

[Sjoerd Simons]

Package: base-passwd
Version: 3.5.11
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

  As part of the package utopia effort we think it would be nice of the
  following two groups were added to Debian by default. Both are intended to
  give the desktop (but mainly laptop) user more power over their system
  without requiring them to get root and do some tweaking.

  * netdev: Members of this group can request changes in the network state. For
    example to connect to a wireless network. This is mainly usefull for users 
    that often change (wireless) networks.
    
    We want to use this for network-manager (currently in NEW) and dhcdbd  

  * powerdev: Member of this group can request changes in the ``power state''
    of the system. That is things like suspending the system, hibernating it,
    setting it in low-power mode. Like netdev, this is mainly usefull for
    laptop users who want an easy way to change the ``power state'' of their 
    system.
    
    Programs that we want to use it for are hal and powersaved. Other potential
    candidates to use this group are pbbuttonsd, pmud and maybe even cpufreqd. 

  
  Sjoerd

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=nl_NL (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages base-passwd depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.3.5-13   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

base-passwd recommends no packages.

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