Bug#293830: gksu: Please package sudo functionality separate from su functionality

William Ballard William Ballard <nospam_40811@alltel.net>, 293830@bugs.debian.org
Sat, 05 Feb 2005 21:12:02 -0500


Package: gksu
Version: 1.2.2-1
Severity: normal

I think it should be permissible to have synaptic on one's machine and 
not have sudo.  synaptic depends on gksu, but doesn't require sudo to 
run.  sudo is a security risk -- I don't want it, but I want programs 
that require the ability to su graphically.

su and sudo are in separate packages -- for good reason.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages gksu depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0              1.8.0-4         The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                    2.3.2.ds1-20    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgksu1.2-0             1.2.5a-1        library providing su and sudo func
ii  libgksuui1.0-0           1.0.3-2         a graphical fronted to su library
ii  libglib2.0-0             2.6.1-3         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0              2.4.14-2        The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libpango1.0-0            1.6.0-3         Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libx11-6                 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System protocol client li
ii  xlibs                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu

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