[Desktop] Status 2011-12-02

[Steve Langasek]

On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 07:48:41AM -0500, Marc Deslauriers wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-12-02 at 10:29 +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:
> >  * Update our desktop packages (polkit, accountsservice, jockey, language-selector, etc.) for the admin → sudo group migration. This is now the new preferred "administrator" group, but admin should still be recognized for backwards compatibility (for eternity).

> I'm curious as to why exactly we would want our privileged group to be
> called "sudo" instead of "admin". It seems to me "sudo" isn't a
> descriptive name for it, and doesn't imply that the user has rights
> outside of the sudo tool itself....

> If we need to maintain backwards compatibility forever, why are we
> making our users switch?

The motivation was that user-setup is one of our chronically worst merges
and prior to this hadn't been merged since lucid, so reducing the delta
should reduce the maintenance burden associated with the installer
component.  If this change causes greater maintenance burden elsewhere, or
if the inconsistency is too awkward, we can certainly revisit - and possibly
throw in an upgrade kludge for those who've installed precise alpha 1.

-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer                                    http://www.debian.org/
slangasek at ubuntu.com                                     vorlon at debian.org
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