This bug was fixed in the package system-tools-backends - 2.6.0-1ubuntu1

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system-tools-backends (2.6.0-1ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  [ James Westby ]
  * Merge with Debian (LP: #244492), remaining changes:
    - Change the maintainer to the ubuntu-desktop team.
    - Use policykit.
      - Alter Build-Depends to build with policykit support.
      - Install the policy.
      - Ubuntu-specific.
    - debian/patches/07_dont_symlink_localtime.patch:
      - /etc/localtime should always be a copy, not a symlink, to support
        systems with /usr on a separate partition.
      - http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=541058
      - http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=488792
    - debian/patches/03_correct_perl_command.patch:
      - use the distribution perl rather than the environment one (lp: #199134)
      - http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=488793
    - Use --with-stb-group=admin rather than stb-admin.
      - Don't create the stb-admin group.
      - in debian/patches/03_default_permissions.patch allow the admin
        group to talk to the backends.
      - Ubuntu-specific.
  * Drop conflicts on liboobs-1-1 (<< 0.5) and breaks on gnome-system-tools
    (<< 2.21.3) as they are no longer needed.
  * Don't use the init script to stop in runlevels 0 and 6.
    - Change DEB_DH_INSTALLINIT_ARGS to "-- start 30 2 3 4 5 . stop 70 1 ."
    - Change "Default-Stop: 0 1 6" to "Default-Stop: 1" in
      debian/system-tools-backends.init.
    - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Teardown
    - http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=488796

  [ Martin Pitt ]
  * debian/system-tools-backends.preinst: Fix version comparison in dbus init
    script deprecation code to apply to this Ubuntu version.

system-tools-backends (2.6.0-1) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Loic Minier ]
  * New patch, 60_fix-permissions-of-pid-file, fixes permissions of .pid file;
    thanks Mike Bird; GNOME #533624; closes: #447361.

  [ Josselin Mouette ]
  * New upstream release.
  * 60_fix-permissions-of-pid-file.patch: fixed to apply again.
  * system-tools-backends.install: updated to match a directory change.
  * 03_default_permissions.patch: fix the default permissions so that
    not all users are allowed to talk to the backends.
  * Conflict with liboobs-1-3.

system-tools-backends (2.4.2-1) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Kilian Krause ]
  * Add get-orig-source target.
  * Fix preinst maintainer script. Add rm_conffile function from
    http://wiki.debian.org/DpkgConffileHandling. Actually this should be done
    through ucf, anyway.

  [ Sven Arvidsson ]
  * Add a basic man page (Closes: #433111)

  [ Loic Minier ]
  * Make system-tools-backends-dev arch: all as the /usr/lib/pkgconfig file is
    actually arch independent (and should be moved to /usr/share).

  [ Josselin Mouette ]
  * New upstream release. Closes: #453633.
  * 02ubuntu_chmod_network_interfaces_when_using_key.patch: updated from
    Ubuntu.
  * Define PIDDIR in the init script. Closes: #455600.
  * Entirely remove the old dbus script.
  * Standards version is 3.7.3.
  * Don’t stop the init script in the S runlevel.
  * Handle gracefully the case where the daemon fails to stop in the
    preinst.
  * Really remove the conffile by passing all arguments to rm_conffile.

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden>   Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:12:27 +0200