Bug#905058: policykit-1: brlapi connections do not work any more

[Samuel Thibault]

Simon McVittie, le mer. 01 août 2018 17:29:39 +0100, a ecrit:
> On Wed, 01 Aug 2018 at 18:13:47 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Control: reassign -1 905058 brltty
> > Control: tags -1 + patch pending
> > 
> > Samuel Thibault, le mar. 31 juil. 2018 02:42:06 +0200, a ecrit:
> > > As reported also on
> > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit-1/+bug/1782320
> > > , on upgrading from policykit 0.105-20 to 0.105-21, brlapi connections
> > > have stopped working.
> > 
> > So it seems it is a misuse of the policykit API from brltty, I will
> > upload a fixed package.
> 
> Thanks. Would you like us to add a versioned Breaks in polkit?

That could be useful, just in case.

> Please could you also prepare the same fix for stretch? We'll need that
> to avoid regressing when we upload a polkit with this CVE fix there.

Oh right, I'll do it.

Samuel