Package: gksu Version: 2.0.2-9 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer,
gksudo, kdesudo and lxqt-sudo currently provide similar services, and having one of them installed on a system should be sufficient IMHO. However, as it stands, packages are recommending, or even depending on, a specific one of these frontends. Please consider creating a virtual package (e.g. sudo-graphical-frontend), and a desktop-independent executable (e.g. using alternatives) so that packages that require generic graphical sudo services can depend on and use those. Maybe that some applications do require a specific frontend, but I'm sure there is a significant number of packages that works fine with whatever sudo frontend happens to be installed. I am submitting this same bug for gksu, kdesudo and lxqt-sudo. Kind regards, Rogier. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages gksu depends on: ii gconf-service 3.2.6-3 ii libatk1.0-0 2.16.0-2 ii libc6 2.19-18 ii libcairo2 1.14.2-2 ii libfontconfig1 2.11.0-6.3 ii libfreetype6 2.5.2-4 ii libgconf-2-4 3.2.6-3 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.31.4-2 ii libgksu2-0 2.0.13~pre1-8 ii libglib2.0-0 2.44.1-1 ii libgnome-keyring0 3.12.0-1+b1 ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.25-3 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.36.8-3 ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.36.8-3 ii libpangoft2-1.0-0 1.36.8-3 ii libstartup-notification0 0.12-4 ii sudo 1.8.12-1 Versions of packages gksu recommends: ii gnome-keyring 3.16.0-2 gksu suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
