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This bug was fixed in the package jockey - 0.9.5-0ubuntu1

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jockey (0.9.5-0ubuntu1) precise; urgency=low

  * New upstream release:
    - When connecting to D-BUS fails, improve error message to let users know
      what to do. Thanks Martin Owens.
    - jockey/oslib.py: Work with current PackageKit version. Thanks to Hedayat
      Vatankhah. (Not relevant for Ubuntu branch)
    - More user-friendly authentication messages on driver operations. Thanks
      Robert Roth. (LP: #799725)
    - Only ask for confirmation in check_composite if --confirm has been set.
      Thanks to Evan Dandrea. (LP: #855042)
    - examples/fake.modaliases: add -updates examples
    - Fix no space typo in VMWare drivers. Thanks Robert Roth. (LP: #722936)
    - detection.py: Fix crash if Driver ID does not have a package field.
      (LP: #837495)
  * debian/control: Add polkit-kde-1 dependency. (LP: #872442)
 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@xxxxxxxxxx>   Wed, 26 Oct 2011 08:40:31 +0200

** Changed in: jockey (Ubuntu Precise)
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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Title:
  Wording of authentication dialog is unclear - "System policy prevents
  installation/removal of device drivers" but it doesn't prevent it

Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts:
  Confirmed
Status in “jockey” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “jockey” source package in Precise:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Ubuntu 11.04

  1. Install Ubuntu on a machine for which Jockey thinks a proprietary driver is the best choice.
  2. Launch "Additional Drivers".
  3. Select the driver and choose "Activate".

  What happens: An authentication alert appears saying "System policy
  prevents installation/removal of device drivers".

  What should happen: The alert for letting you do something shouldn't
  claim that system policy prevents it from being done at all.

  Following the example of Ubuntu Software Center, the text could read
  "To install or remove device drivers, you need to authenticate.".

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