Comment 0 for bug 616682

Binary package hint: system-tools-backends

Lucid ships with system-tools-backends 2.9.4-0ubuntu1, which is an upstream development version considered as unstable, and which suffers form several serious bugs. Maverick now has 2.10.0 synced from Debian, with very limited changes (bugfixes only). It fixes bugs #534154, #533870, #542183, and #546873.

Summary of the bugs:
#534154: crash on amd64
#533870: another crash on amd6' preventing from editing user's own Real name
#542183: changing UID doesn't work
#546873: very long delays with no feedback when applying changes

Attached is the diff between Lucid and Maverick versions.

Changelog (see bug 613362):

system-tools-backends (2.10.0-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Break g-s-t and liboobs < 2.30 since the protocol has changed.

system-tools-backends (2.10.0-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
  * debian/control.in:
    - Bump libpolkit-gobject-1-dev build-depend to 0.94.
    - Standards-Version is 3.8.4, no changes needed.
  * debian/patches/08_use_md5.patch:
    - Removed, dbus method no more returns whether to use md5 or not,
      password is now changed via PAM.
  * Switch to source format 3.0 (quilt).
    - Add debian/source/format.
    - Drop quilt from Build-Depends.
    - Remove /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/patchsys-quilt.mk include.
 -- Christophe Sauthier (huats) <email address hidden> Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:53:17 +0200