[Bug 11957] System usernames could conflict with non-system users

[Martin Pitt]

Public bug report changed:
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/11957

Task: ubuntu hal
         Status: Confirmed => Fix Released

Comment:
 hal (0.5.7-1ubuntu9) dapper; urgency=low
 .
   * Disable debian/patches/01_probe_parttable.patch, it causes regressions
     (like CD-ROMs detected as fsusage='partitiontable'). This reopens bug
     #19390, but that one is much less evil.
   * debian/hal-device-manager.desktop:
     - Add X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain.
     - Update the German translation to match the changed C one from
       0.5.7-1ubuntu7.
   * Add debian/hal-device-manager.desktop.in: Reduced h-d-m desktop file with
     just _Name and _Comment to add these msgids to the POT.
   * Add debian/patches/desktop-POTFILES.patch: Add debian/h-d-m.desktop.in to
     POTFILES.in.
   * Add debian/patches/10-hdm-nice-keyvalues.patch:
     - Beautify the display of list values: do not show a Python unicode prefix
       (u'foo') and Python list notation ([...]).
     - Closes: LP#35935
   * Rename system user 'hal' to 'haldaemon' to be compatible with upstream
     default (and the documentation in the web) and to avoid name conflicts
     with user accounts for people whose name is 'Hal'.
     - debian/rules: Drop --with-hal-{user,group}
     - debian/hal.postinst, debian/hal.init.dbus: Change user name accordingly.
     - Closes: LP#11957
   * debian/hal.default: Remove the comments about hal running as user/root,
     since this cannot be changed any more.