Package: menu Version: 2.1.36 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hi!
Your package menu suggests kdebase-bin without a specific version. With KDE 4, kdesu will no longer be found in /usr/bin, but in `kde4-config --path libexec` which would be /usr/lib/kde4/libexec for Debian. The KDE 4 Package which contains kdesu is then kdebase-runtime. Please consider the appended patch to add support for kdesu from KDE 4 to su-to-root. Greetings, Armin
diff -ur menu-2.1.36.orig/debian/control menu-2.1.36/debian/control --- menu-2.1.36.orig/debian/control 2008-01-10 18:58:56.000000000 +0100 +++ menu-2.1.36/debian/control 2008-01-13 03:02:02.000000000 +0100 @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Package: menu Architecture: any Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, dpkg (>=1.10) -Suggests: gksu|kdebase-bin|sux +Suggests: gksu|kdebase-bin (<< 4:4.0.0-1)|kdebase-runtime|sux Description: generates programs menu for all menu-aware applications Debian menu keeps transparently the menus in the different window-managers in sync with the list of installed programs. diff -ur menu-2.1.36.orig/scripts/su-to-root menu-2.1.36/scripts/su-to-root --- menu-2.1.36.orig/scripts/su-to-root 2008-01-10 18:58:56.000000000 +0100 +++ menu-2.1.36/scripts/su-to-root 2008-01-13 03:06:35.000000000 +0100 @@ -82,14 +82,19 @@ X11) if test -z "$SU_TO_ROOT_X"; then if which gksu >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then - if test "X$KDE_FULL_SESSION" = "Xtrue" \ - && which kdesu >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then - SU_TO_ROOT_X=kdesu + if test "X$KDE_FULL_SESSION" = "Xtrue" ; then + if which kdesu >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then + SU_TO_ROOT_X=kdesu3 + elif test -x /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu ; then + SU_TO_ROOT_X=kdesu4 + fi; else SU_TO_ROOT_X=gksu fi; elif which kdesu >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then - SU_TO_ROOT_X=kdesu + SU_TO_ROOT_X=kdesu3 + elif test -x /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu ; then + SU_TO_ROOT_X=kdesu4 elif which sux >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then SU_TO_ROOT_X=sux else @@ -98,7 +103,8 @@ fi case $SU_TO_ROOT_X in gksu) gksu -u "$PRIV" "$COMMAND";; - kdesu) kdesu -u "$PRIV" "$COMMAND";; + kdesu3) kdesu -u "$PRIV" "$COMMAND";; + kdesu4) /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu -u "$PRIV" "$COMMAND";; sux) env SU_TO_ROOT_SU=sux \ x-terminal-emulator -e su-to-root -p "$PRIV" -c "$COMMAND";; # As a last resort, open a new x-terminal-emulator and prompt for the password