Package: gksu
Severity: wishlist
Version: 2.0.2-5
Tags: patch
The package description for gksu knows nothing of sudo:
Description: graphical frontend to su
gksu is a Gtk+ frontend to /bin/su. It supports login shells
and preserving environment when acting as a su frontend. It
is useful to menu items or other graphical programs that need
to ask a user's password to run another program as another user.
We could be lazy and just cram in "and sudo" a couple of times, but
things are complicated by the increased ambiguity of the name
"gksu": it's
1) a program providing a front-end to su, but it's also
2) the package providing front-ends to *both* commands, and
3) the library making that possible.
The above text is based on the old upstream blurb describing the GKSu
library (and how it's useful to the desktop); ideally we'd prefer
something describing the gksu package (and how it's useful to a user
who's thinking of installing it).
I may of course be wasting my time here, if gksu is on the verge of
being thrown away and replaced by PolicyKit, but until then here's a
suggested replacement text inspired by the manpage:
Description: graphical front-end to su and sudo
This package provides GTK+ front-ends for su (gksu) and sudo (gksudo),
allowing users to give a password and run graphical commands as root
without needing to invoke su or sudo in a terminal emulator.
(GTK+ is the canonical capitalisation, and front-ends is hyphenated as
a compromise towards geekspeak; the dictionaries say it should be
"front ends".)
--
JBR
Ankh kak! (Ancient Egyptian blessing)
diff -ru gksu-2.0.2.pristine/debian/control.in gksu-2.0.2/debian/control.in
--- gksu-2.0.2.pristine/debian/control.in 2011-02-18 01:51:39.000000000 +0000
+++ gksu-2.0.2/debian/control.in 2011-02-18 01:54:16.544925375 +0000
@@ -29,11 +29,10 @@
libgksu0
Provides: gnome-sudo
Conflicts: gnome-sudo (<= 0.3-1.1)
-Description: graphical frontend to su
- gksu is a Gtk+ frontend to /bin/su. It supports login shells
- and preserving environment when acting as a su frontend. It
- is useful to menu items or other graphical programs that need
- to ask a user's password to run another program as another user.
+Description: graphical front-end to su and sudo
+ This package provides GTK+ front-ends for su (gksu) and sudo (gksudo),
+ allowing users to give a password and run graphical commands as root
+ without needing to invoke su or sudo in a terminal emulator.
Package: nautilus-gksu
Architecture: any
