Bug#362832: gksu looks for /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth

Steve Langasek vorlon at debian.org
Sat Apr 15 21:37:36 UTC 2006


severity 362832 important
thanks

On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 05:00:00PM -0400, alex bolgarov wrote:
> Package: gksu
> Version: 1.3.7-1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable

> On a freshly installed Debian Unstable (that is, yesterday I have installed
> Unstable onto fresh clean partition, by using Testing net-inst CD and then
> changing /etc/apt/sources.list to point to unstable), gksu looks for the
> file /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth.

> The only xauth I have is in the /usr/bin/xauth.

Since gksu (indirectly) depends on x11-common, and the latest version of
x11-common has been updated to make /usr/X11R6/bin a symlink to /usr/bin,
this bug doesn't need to be considered grave.

gksu should still be updated to reference xauth as /usr/bin/xauth instead of
/usr/X11R6/bin/xauth, but this isn't urgent now, and care should be taken to
ensure that either a) it can fall back to /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth, or b) its
dependencies are tightened to ensure a version of xbase-clients is installed
that provides /usr/bin/xauth.

Hmm, but I guess gksu currently doesn't depend on xbase-clients at all, I
wonder what the story is there.

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Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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