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ethereal package

ethereal-root.desktop call gksu instead of gksudo

Bug #423 reported by Laurent Bigonville
28
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
ethereal (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Stephan Rügamer

Bug Description

The ethereal menu entry calls gksu to execute ethereal as root,it should call gksudo instead as there is no root user...

The ethereal menu entry calls gksu to execute ethereal as root,it should call gksudo instead as there is no root user...

See original description
Stephan Rügamer (sruegamer)
Changed in ethereal:
assignee: nobody → sh-sourcecode
status: New → Rejected
status: New → Accepted
status: Accepted → PendingUpload
status: PendingUpload → Fixed
status: Fixed → PendingUpload
status: PendingUpload → Fixed
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Stephan Rügamer (sruegamer) wrote :

Ok,

I took over the job:

Changes for ethereal_0.10.10 for breezy:

- Changed the ethereal-root.desktop entry to use gksudo
- adjusted the control file for dependcies
- patched upstream source, there were some gcc4 complaints
- waiting for upload by crimsun

Revision history for this message
Stephan Rügamer (sruegamer) wrote :

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Format: 1.7
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 19:28:00 +0200
Source: ethereal
Binary: ethereal ethereal-dev tethereal ethereal-common
Architecture: source
Version: 0.10.10-1ubuntu2
Distribution: breezy
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Frederic Peters <email address hidden>
Changed-By: Stephan Hermann <email address hidden>
Description:
 ethereal - network traffic analyzer
 ethereal-common - network traffic analyser (common files)
 ethereal-dev - network traffic analyser (development tools)
 tethereal - network traffic analyzer (console)
Changes:
 ethereal (0.10.10-1ubuntu2) breezy; urgency=low
 .
   * compiled for breezy
   * created patch for gcc4 complaints
Files:
 d385a31c235830d9806092aa8c19acff 880 net optional ethereal_0.10.10-1ubuntu2.dsc
 108bb162a9a9e4147187d191ff61e657 420486 net optional ethereal_0.10.10-1ubuntu2.diff.gz

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Yann Rouillard (yann-pleiades) wrote :

This bugs is still present in ethereal 0.10.12-2ubuntu2.

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