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gnome-system-tools 2.29.1-0ubuntu1 is causing all of gnome in Mythbuntu builds

Bug #497441 reported by Mario Limonciello
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Mythbuntu
Fix Released
Critical
Unassigned
Mythbuntu lucid-alpha2
gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Chris Coulson
Ubuntu lucid-alpha-2

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-system-tools

I was just comparing daily live builds for Mythbuntu from the last few days, and it appears that 2009-12-14 was OK, but then on 2009-12-15 and 2009-12-16 we have builds that contain a bunch of gnome that is not interesting to a Mythbuntu user.

This is the change causing it:

  * Sync with Debian unstable, remaining changes:
    - debian/control:
      + Add Vcs-Bzr URL info.
      + Depend on gnome-control-center so that gnome-about-me is available

This was supposed to in theory happen during Karmic:

    - Depend on gnome-control-center so that gnome-about-me is available.

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But I don't actually see that change made, so that's why it wasn't visible back then. Can we please not have this dependency on gnome-control-center? Those tools provided in gnome-system-tools are interesting to things other than gnome, but we don't want the rest of gnome pulled in just because of them.

See original description
Mario Limonciello (superm1)
description: updated
Mario Limonciello (superm1)
Changed in mythbuntu:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Critical
milestone: none → lucid-alpha2
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Milan Bouchet-Valat (nalimilan) wrote :

That's tightly related to bug 484559. If you don't mind losing the improvement brought by fixing bug 307019, I think you can commit the debdiff that is available on the former. Anyway the goal is to get rid of this hack and do all the work right by ourselves, i.e. without dependencies.

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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote :

Milan is right, the gnome-control-center dependency is there (and should have been there in Karmic) because users-admin uses gnome-about-me for changing user passwords.

Do Xubuntu users have any other means for changing their password graphically, other than the method currently provided by users-admin?

Changed in gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)
importance: Undecided → High
status: New → Triaged
Revision history for this message
Mario Limonciello (superm1) wrote :

@Chris:

I believe users-admin is the only graphical tool available for doing this in Xubuntu or Mythbuntu.

@Milan:

Personally I wouldn't mind losing the benefit.

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If it's possible to split gnome-about-me out of the full control-center package, that would probably be more preferable though so that the same experience is available on Xubuntu / Mythbuntu as it is for Ubuntu regarding changing passwords.

Mario Limonciello (superm1)
Changed in gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu):
milestone: none → lucid-alpha-2
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-system-tools - 2.29.1-0ubuntu2

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gnome-system-tools (2.29.1-0ubuntu2) lucid; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/85_user_gnome_about_me_for_password.patch:
    - Updated to fall-back to using system-tools-backends to change
      active users password when gnome-about-me isn't available
      (LP: #484559)
  * debian/control: Suggest gnome-control-center rather than depending
    on it (LP: #497441)
 -- Chris Coulson <email address hidden> Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:43:00 +0000

Changed in gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
Mario Limonciello (superm1)
Changed in mythbuntu:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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