Update to 2.28.0

Hum... why is this:

@@ -33,8 +33,7 @@
 Architecture: any
 Depends: ${misc:Depends},
          ${shlibs:Depends},
- perl,
- system-tools-backends (>= 2.8)
+ perl
 Recommends: policykit-gnome
 Suggests: ntp,
           samba-common,

Good spot! The branch doesn't match what is in the archive, despite the version numbers being in sync. Not sure how that has happened, but I'll update the branch anyway.

Thanks for working on that!

About:
> * Added debian/patches/84_hide_uid_notice.patch:
> - Disable a new string introduced upstream, as we are past UI Freeze.
> The string is not fully translated yet and incorrectly uses a
> gender-specific pronoun, which would need to change.
Please feel free to suggest any better phrasing of this notice. As I'm not native English, my strings may not be very good. Do you think we'd better use a genitive form to avoid gender issues?

Right, I've updated the branch now with the fixed dependency.

Milan - I'm not too sure about the string either. Perhaps something like "User must log out before you can change their user ID" or "Cannot change user ID whilst the user is logged in". In any case, the new string would probably need approval by the release team, and seeing as it is not fully translated yet, I thought it might be better if it was just commented out for the time being. This doesn't mean we can't show it later on. The string will still get imported in to Rosetta as I have not removed it from the UI file, so it may still get translated by the translation teams anyway.

Will sponsor, need to do a small fix

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-system-tools - 2.28.0-0ubuntu1

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gnome-system-tools (2.28.0-0ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  [ Chris Coulson ]
  * New upstream release 2.27.92 (LP: #433700):
    - Network: Remove empty space around buttons on the right (Milan)
    - Time:
      + Fix crash due to empty time zone list (Milan)
      + Fix missing time zones map (idem) (Milan)
      + Correctly detect NTP support when we've just installed it (Milan)
    - Users:
      + Prevent changing root's UID, and that of currently logged in users.
        Show a notice about that. (Milan - Bug 395056)
      + Always check that committing changes is successful before showing
        them (Milan)
      + Don't try to create the user if we could not create its main group.
        This avoids showing three identical error dialogs when failing. (Milan)
      + Allow new users to explicitly choose in the list an existing group
        for main group (Milan)
      + Set UID and GID range to [0;MAX_UINT32], since those values are
        allowed (for manual selection only) (Milan)
  * debian/control:
    - Bump libgtk2.0-dev build-dep to 2.16.
  * Disable services-admin - it is not very useful in the Upstart world
    (LP: #433701).
  * Dropped obsolete debian/patches/18_disable_uid.patch.
  * Added debian/patches/84_hide_uid_notice.patch:
    - Disable a new string introduced upstream, as we are past UI Freeze.
      The string is not fully translated yet and incorrectly uses a
      gender-specific pronoun, which would need to change.
  * Refreshed patches:
    - 82_gst-packages-time-admin.patch
    - 98_automake.patch

  [ Martin Pitt ]
  * Update to 2.28.0 (LP: #433700):
    - Translation updates.
  * debian/control.in: Fix policykit-gnome dependency to be policykit-1-gnome.

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:53:06 +0200

Chris: Thanks, maybe I'll go with the second one. Don't worry for Karmic, though - the notice can be hidden without too much trouble, since not many users will try to change the UID of a logged in user. The important part was preventing them from playing with that inadvertently.