[SCM] VLC media player packaging branch, sid, updated. debian/0.8.6.h-5-29-g9764b09

xtophe-guest at users.alioth.debian.org xtophe-guest at users.alioth.debian.org
Tue Feb 24 19:09:03 UTC 2009


The following commit has been merged in the sid branch:
commit 9764b09c1d04459da371bb6d5c066294530bf7b5
Author: Christophe Mutricy <xtophe at videolan.org>
Date:   Tue Feb 24 16:00:53 2009 +0100

    Add a note in NEWS about running as root and vlc-wrapper (Closes: #507872)

diff --git a/debian/NEWS b/debian/NEWS
index 9e263a4..dd18804 100644
--- a/debian/NEWS
+++ b/debian/NEWS
@@ -8,6 +8,12 @@ vlc (0.9.8a-2) unstable; urgency=low
   /usr/share/vlc/http and use --http-src option of vlc. If you don't, your
   modifications will get lost at the next upgrade of vlc.
 
+  Running VLC as root:
+
+   Since 0.9.0, VLC can't be run as root. If you need realtime priority or if
+  you need to have VLC listening on a privileged port (<1024), then you need to
+  use vlc-wrapper.
+
  -- Christophe Mutricy <xtophe at videolan.org>  Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:41:46 +0000
 
 vlc (0.9.2-1) experimental; urgency=low
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index d7e609a..be34c78 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -11,8 +11,9 @@ vlc (0.9.8a-2) unstable; urgency=low
   * Improve some short descriptions
   * Depends on debhelper >7
   * Fix for 2 builds in a row
+  * Add a note in NEWS about running as root and vlc-wrapper (Closes: #507872)
 
- -- Christophe Mutricy <xtophe at videolan.org>  Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:55:55 +0100
+ -- Christophe Mutricy <xtophe at videolan.org>  Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:00:31 +0100
 
 vlc (0.9.8a-1) experimental; urgency=low
 

-- 
VLC media player packaging



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