** Description changed: + [Impact] + Use of gksudo in the update-notifier hook means that the "Run this action" command fails on a Kubuntu system; so any time a data download fails, Kubuntu users are presented with a message about it but given nothing that helps them fix the problem. + + [Test Case] + 1. On Kubuntu, run sudo cp /usr/share/update-notifier/package-data-downloads-failed /var/lib/update-notifier/user.d/ + 2. On the resulting dialog, click on 'Run this action' + 3. Verify that the action gives an error about gksudo + 4. Upgrade to the update-notifier-common package in precise-proposed + 5. Repeat steps 1 and 2 + 6. Confirm that you are prompted for a password and that the command runs without error. + 7. On a separate Ubuntu install, install the update-notifier-common package from precise-proposed + 8. Repeat steps 5 and 6 + + [Regression potential] + The package uploaded to precise-proposed does not add a dependency on policykit-1 (since it did not have one on gksudo). So if gksudo was installed on the user's system, but policykit-1 is not, this will cause the command to fail where before it succeeded. It's possible this should be addressed by adding a dependency. + The pkexec command could also fail where gksudo did not. I can't think of any reason why this would be. + The package-data-downloader update-notifier hook has an action that requires root privileges. In the interest in expedience, this button uses gksudo in precise; but gksudo is not included in Kubuntu. This needs to be fixed to either use policykit + a dbus service (which may be too heavyweight for this despite being the preferred security model?), or to use use something like ubiquity's "get root any way I can" wrapper. Neither of these fixes is going to make it for precise .0, however. This is inconvenient, but the dialog is only presented in case of a download failure anyway.
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