Comment 5 for bug 124990
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| Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote | #5 |
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Added the extra two rules.
The reason for the rules policy is that otherwise udev needs to make every single custom group; you are wrong in that they are ignored, udev will still lookup the group which can cause regressions on LDAP systems, for example.
Our preferred solution in Ubuntu is for programs accessing these devices to do it through HAL, which gives us a much better managed access to them; in the next Ubuntu release we'll be dropping much of the custom groups in favour of user ACLs on the devices.
You quoted the README.Debian for the Debian udev package. Ubuntu and Debian have a vastly different udev package and maintenance policy, which is understandable given that in Ubuntu udev is mandatory and so are HAL, D-BUS, etc.