Package: virtualbricks Severity: serious Version: 1.0.2-1 Tags: sid buster User: pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org Usertags: oldlibs gksu
gksu has been deprecated for years. The intent of gksu is to allow running apps with elevated privileges but the way to do that is for the app developer to use PolicyKit to request elevated privileges for the specific actions that need done instead of for the whole app to run as root. For the next major stable release of Debian (codenamed Buster), the Debian GNOME team plans to default to GNOME on Wayland where gksu does not even work. gksu is unmaintained (last upload 2014) and is a security vulnerability. Therefore, gksu has been removed from Debian Testing and will be removed from Unstable soon. It is my understanding that it is a Release Critical bug to recommend a removed package since it will prevent the package from being automatically removed on upgrades. Please remove virtualbricks' Recommends on gksu. On behalf of the Debian GNOME team, Jeremy Bicha
