Bill Allombert wrote: > I also reported bug #535064 asking for upstream to provide a xdg-su script. > This would be much better than any Debian-only interface.
As I said, there was one, but they removed it. They think that applications should use PolicyKit instead. (Not that I agree.) OTOH, there seems to be no upstream maintainer at the moment. One reason that I haven't uploaded the package in a while is that I am somewhat reluctant to add Debian-only patches to it. The whole point of xdg-utils is that it should provide a distro-neutral interface for doing stuff. It seems a bit pointless then to add Debian-specific interfaces. There are already many patches in the Debian package. I once tried to get LyX's upstream to use xdg-open by default to open files, but it turns out that other distro's xdg-open are broken, so it didn't work. Now only the LyX in Debian (and derivs.) uses xdg-open. Unless we can get upstream to somehow accept patches and new interfaces, I think it would be better to add them to another package. Calling things xdg-* without having anything to do with freedesktop.org seems wrong. -- Pelle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
