Package: vlc Version: 1.0.2-1 Severity: important
vlc has an artificial check to disallow it from being ran as root. However, it's my choice to do so. I fully understand what I'm doing. No, you don't need to lecture me about the way I use my operating system (I appreciate the willingness to help, but I already know and I've already decided I wanted to do otherwise for a number of reasons). GNU/Linux is about choice, not about being babysitted and told what I want and don't want to do. If I wanted that, I'd be using Windows. Please respect our right to decide and do not artificially limit software. If you absolutely must prevent most from running vlc as root (possibly accidentally), you could make it check for the existence of some file such as /root/.i-mean-business or some configuration option in a VLC configuration file. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (800, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages vlc depends on: ii libaa1 1.4p5-38 ascii art library ii libc6 2.9-27 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.16-2 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libfreetype6 2.3.9-5 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libfribidi0 0.10.9-1 Free Implementation of the Unicode ii libgcc1 1:4.4.1-4 GCC support library ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl 7.6-1 A free implementation of the OpenG ii libglib2.0-0 2.22.1-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgtk2.0-0 2.18.1-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libnotify1 [libnotify1 0.4.5-1 sends desktop notifications to a n ii libqtcore4 4:4.5.2-2 Qt 4 core module ii libqtgui4 4:4.5.2-2 Qt 4 GUI module ii libsdl-image1.2 1.2.7-2 image loading library for Simple D ii libsdl1.2debian 1.2.13-5 Simple DirectMedia Layer ii libstdc++6 4.4.1-4 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libtar 1.2.11-6 C library for manipulating tar arc ii libvlccore2 1.0.2-1 base library for VLC and its modul ii libx11-6 2:1.2.2-1 X11 client-side library ii libxext6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxinerama1 2:1.0.3-2 X11 Xinerama extension library ii libxv1 2:1.0.4-1 X11 Video extension library ii libxxf86vm1 1:1.0.2-1 X11 XFree86 video mode extension l ii ttf-dejavu-core 2.30-1 Vera font family derivate with add ii vlc-nox 1.0.2-1 multimedia player and streamer (wi ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15 compression library - runtime vlc recommends no packages. Versions of packages vlc suggests: pn mozilla-plugin-vlc <none> (no description available) pn videolan-doc <none> (no description available) Versions of packages vlc-nox depends on: ii liba52-0.7.4 0.7.4-11 library for decoding ATSC A/52 str ii libasound2 1.0.21a-1 shared library for ALSA applicatio ii libass4 0.9.7-3 library for SSA/ASS subtitles rend ii libavahi-client3 0.6.25-1 Avahi client library ii libavahi-common3 0.6.25-1 Avahi common library ii libavcodec52 5:0.5+svn20091001-0.0 library to encode decode multimedi ii libavformat52 5:0.5+svn20091001-0.0 ffmpeg file format library ii libavutil49 4:0.5+svn20090706-2+b1 ffmpeg utility library ii libc6 2.9-27 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcaca0 0.99.beta16-2 colour ASCII art library ii libcdio10 0.81-4 library to read and control CD-ROM ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.16-2 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdca0 0.0.5-3 decoding library for DTS Coherent ii libdvbpsi5 0.1.6-1 library for MPEG TS and DVB PSI ta ii libdvdnav4 4.1.3-5 DVD navigation library ii libdvdread4 4.1.3-7 library for reading DVDs ii libebml0 0.7.7-3.1 access library for the EBML format ii libfaad2 2.7-2 freeware Advanced Audio Decoder - ii libflac8 1.2.1-2+b1 Free Lossless Audio Codec - runtim ii libfontconfig1 2.6.0-4 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.3.9-5 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libfribidi0 0.10.9-1 Free Implementation of the Unicode ii libgcc1 1:4.4.1-4 GCC support library ii libgcrypt11 1.4.4-4 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr ii libgnutls26 2.8.4-1 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr ii libgpg-error0 1.6-1 library for common error values an ii libhal1 0.5.13-3 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share ii liblircclient0 0.8.3-5 infra-red remote control support - ii liblua5.1-0 5.1.4-3 Simple, extensible, embeddable pro ii libmad0 0.15.1b-4 MPEG audio decoder library ii libmatroska0 0.8.1-1.1 extensible open standard audio/vid ii libmodplug0c2 1:0.8.7-1 shared libraries for mod music bas ii libmpcdec3 1:1.2.2-2.1 Musepack (MPC) format library ii libmpeg2-4 0.4.1-3 MPEG1 and MPEG2 video decoder libr ii libncursesw5 5.7+20090803-2 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libogg0 1.1.4~dfsg-1 Ogg bitstream library ii libpng12-0 1.2.39-1 PNG library - runtime ii libpostproc51 5:0.5+svn20091001-0.0 postproc shared libraries ii libschroedinger-1 1.0.8-2 library for encoding/decoding of D ii libshout3 2.2.2-5+b1 MP3/Ogg Vorbis broadcast streaming ii libsmbclient 2:3.4.2-1 shared library for communication w ii libspeex1 1.2~rc1-1 The Speex codec runtime library ii libstdc++6 4.4.1-4 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libswscale0 5:0.5+svn20091001-0.0 ffmpeg video scaling library ii libsysfs2 2.1.0-6 interface library to sysfs ii libtag1c2a 1.6-3 TagLib Audio Meta-Data Library ii libtheora0 1.1.1-1 The Theora Video Compression Codec ii libtwolame0 0.3.12-1 MPEG Audio Layer 2 encoding librar ii libv4l-0 0.6.1-1 Collection of video4linux support ii libvcdinfo0 0.7.23-4+b2 library to extract information fro ii libvlc2 1.0.2-1 multimedia player and streamer lib ii libvlccore2 1.0.2-1 base library for VLC and its modul ii libvorbis0a 1.2.3-2 The Vorbis General Audio Compressi ii libvorbisenc2 1.2.3-2 The Vorbis General Audio Compressi ii libxml2 2.7.5.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15 compression library - runtime Versions of packages libvlc2 depends on: ii libc6 2.9-27 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libvlccore2 1.0.2-1 base library for VLC and its modul -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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