[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#599813: release-notes: GNOME additions for the release notes

[Julien Cristau]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 16:36:09 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:

> the following needs to be added to the release notes concerning GNOME.
> 
> 1) You need to restart your session after the upgrades, otherwise 
> applications will start crashing. See #550313.

I guess this needs to be added to the 'upgrading' section?  Care to work
on a patch?

> 2) Systems upgraded from lenny will keep GDM 2.20 installed. This 
> version will still be maintained for the squeeze cycle but it is the 
> last release to do so. Systems newly installed will get GDM 2.30 
> instead. You can upgrade it by installing the "gdm3" package - only do 
> so with only one GNOME session open, or from the console. Settings will 
> not be migrated, but for a usual desktop system this action is enough.
> 
> 3) (Not GNOME-specific, but still.) Specific permissions on devices are 
> granted automatically to the user currently logged on physically to the 
> system: video and audio devices, network roaming, power management, 
> device mounting. The cdrom, floppy, audio, video, plugdev and powerdev 
> groups are no longer useful. See the ConsoleKit documentation for more 
> information.
> 
> 4) Most graphical programs requiring root permissions now rely on 
> PolicyKit to do so, instead of gksu. The recommended way to give a user 
> administrative rights is to add it to the "sudo" group.
> 
I think Michael asked on d-devel what group name to use for this.  Is
"sudo" still what we're going with?

For these three items, I currently have:

<para>
The GNOME Display Manager (GDM), is kept at version 2.20 for systems upgraded from &oldreleasename;.  This
version will still be maintained for the squeeze cycle but it is the
last release to do so.  Systems newly installed will get GDM 2.30 instead,
provided by the <package>gdm3</package> package.  Because of incompatibilities
between both versions, this upgrade is not automatic, but it is recommended to
install <package>gdm3</package> after the upgrade to &releasename;.  This
should be done from the console, or with only one open GNOME session.  Note
that settings from GDM 2.20 will <strong>not</strong> be migrated.  For a
standard desktop system, however, simply installing <package>gdm3</package>
should be enough.
</para>
<para>
Specific permissions on devices are
granted automatically to the user currently logged on physically to the
system: video and audio devices, network roaming, power management,
device mounting. The cdrom, floppy, audio, video, plugdev and powerdev
groups are no longer useful. See the <package>consolekit</package>
documentation for more information.
</para>
<para>
Most graphical programs requiring root permissions now rely on
<ulink url="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PolicyKit">PolicyKit</ulink>
to do so, instead of <package>gksu</package>. The recommended way to give a
user administrative rights is to add it to the "sudo" group.
</para>

corrections or wording improvements are welcome.

> 5) (Pending fix of #530024.) If there is only one network interface 
> configured using DHCP, which is the usual case for desktop systems, it 
> will be handled by NetworkManager instead of ifupdown. Therefore the 
> usual ifup and ifdown commands will not work. Instead, the interface can 
> be managed using the NetworkManager frontends. See the NM documentation 
> for more information.
> 
Is there any progress on that bug?

> [ 6) Something has to be said about the Evolution upgrade. However it is 
> still being worked on to be a bit smoother, so it will wait. ]
> 
Cc:ing the evo maintainers for their input, and hopefully patch.

Cheers,
Julien
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