Your message dated Wed, 17 Jan 2018 15:46:07 -0500 with message-id <caaajcmyppkv36bw8ztl_zfuy0byxqkp49rg8ac1vp4hkxgr...@mail.gmail.com> and subject line Re: Uploading NMU to port gdebi away from gksu has caused the Debian Bug report #822596, regarding gdebi: depends on gksu which is deprecated to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Source: gdebi Severity: important Tags: sid stretch User: pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org Usertags: oldlibs gksu Hi, gdebi depends on gksu, which is deprecated and unmaintained. Thus we want to remove it from the archive. gdebi 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 Cheers, Emilio
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--- Begin Message ---Version: 0.9.5.7+nmu2 gdebi (0.9.5.7+nmu2) unstable; urgency=medium [ Julien Lavergne ] * Add a gdebi-gtk-pkexec executable to launch without gksu (LP: #189617). * debian/control: - Make gdebi depends on policykit-1 | gksu. [ Simon Quigley ] * Finish the policykit port: - gdebi-gtk-pkexec isn't needed, root access is only needed for the package installation and removal. - Install the policykit file (create debian/gdebi-gtk.install). - Modify the gksu commands in GDebi/GDebiGtk.py to call pksu instead. - Drop the dependency on gksu and only depend on policykit-1. - Thanks for the initial work, Julien! [ Jeremy Bicha ] * Upload to unstable (LP: #1719746) * Stop building gdebi-kde since gdebi-kde is the last package in Testing depending on the unmaintained pykde4 (Closes: #864963) -- Jeremy Bicha Sun, 31 Dec 2017 11:00:13 -0500
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