Package: lxqt Version: 13 Severity: important Tags: sid stretch User: pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org Usertags: oldlibs gksu
Hi, lxqt recommends gksu, which is deprecated and unmaintained. Thus we want to remove it from the archive. lxqt should switch to a supported and securer way to become root, particularly one that doesn't mean running your whole application as root (including the GUI), e.g. using polkit. Please try to do this before the Stretch release as we're going to try to remove gksu this cycle. We'll bump this to serious when the list of rdeps is small and we're getting ready to removing gksu completely. If you have any question don't hesitate to ask. https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/polkit/ https://wiki.debian.org/PolicyKit I copy-pasted that from another bug report. It doesn't look like gksu will end up being removed for stretch but I believe the Release Team would still be happy to accept updates to reduce the number of packages depending or recommending on gksu. Thanks, Jeremy Bicha
