Hi, On Mon, Jul 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM Yves-Alexis Perez <cor...@debian.org> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > On Thu, 10 Jul 2025 15:04:17 +0100 Peter Blackman <pe...@pblackman.plus.com> > wrote: > > Package: sponsorship-requests > > Severity: normal > > > > Dear mentors, > > > > I am looking for a sponsor for "xfce4": > > > > As we are currently in the hard freeze, > > this nmu in the minimal change needed to fix > > https://bugs.debian.org/1090384 > > > > Hi Peter, > > sorry if you tried to do it and we failed to reply, but you could you please > coordinate with the Xfce team before such uploads? > > Right now, this is a strong NACK for the NMU, because of the lack of > coordination, especially this late in the freeze. > > Unless I'm mistaken (and feel free to provide more information I might have > missed) xfce-polkit is not maintained upstream (last commit on > https://github.com/ncopa/xfce-polkit is three years old). Unless it's really > picked up under the Xfce project umbrella I don't think we need to have it in > Debian at all. > > Even if it's found suitable for Forky, you don't really need to push the > dependency addition through an NMU, you could have discussed that on #1090384 > (before doing the first xfce-polkit upload). Also you can use merge request on > Salsa, that would be easier for us than manually merging the changes after an > NMU. > > Regards, > - -- > Yves-Alexis > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEE8vi34Qgfo83x35gF3rYcyPpXRFsFAmh1W94ACgkQ3rYcyPpX > RFutBQgA0g1BHO4t978huCAi/dKGWQgO0uwZOw/7L9TqJ8mAhh+ymioRA+LyzTU4 > FUSe/O6bY9C8xVGEWJA16d+Gy4D9bQ+dxKZC9J2764ACuBfy21TTh/yQsx0Ta4ip > TmtZRfD6XlOIbeJqTbI4NFvbZ3FpjGUYfuQWDwM/4iawS/68JzE2otPZ6JPrDyK2 > diH8QYN9FMt9bFrqkuoU2zm9DWFlJ+cgsthCNud9BweO/FDPj7K5pBdDsfDoJJdJ > n+DObko+JAujnLwnuhjaT0k3i1kkjtFUJ508rlwtP68ckcHaxK7EsTrIH98tL2Wb > l0EkB5HUM/6tKkdbgqjrtnTkqHZbZw== > =0bcm > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >
I have two XFCE installations here, one with Debian and one with Arch (which hasn't changed the polkit question). I even remember Simon suggesting this package, and its repository has actually been abandoned for some time (in Arch Linux is available in AUR). But in my testing, it worked fine; XFCE still has a working polkit; all the user would need to do is enable it, and I don't see any sense of urgency in including this package in testing (which reinforces that, in my opinion, it's an optional package). -- Cheers, Leandro Cunha
