New upstream version of system-tools-backends

[Milan Bouchet-Valat]

Le jeudi 20 août 2009 à 09:52 +0200, Josselin Mouette a écrit :
> Thanks a lot for the notice. Unfortunately, PolicyKit 1 has not been
> packaged into Debian yet, so we will have to wait for it.
Hadn't noticed that - sorry. I thought Ubuntu packages came from Debian,
but they must have done them by themselves. So Ubuntu is going to have
to deal with that alone.

> BTW, given the change in this requirement, is it still
> backwards-compatible with gnome-system-tools 2.22 ?
Unfortunately not. Maintaining a PolicyKit-free fallback is already a
pain - we can't keep two concurrent authentication mechanisms hidden
between #ifdefs... :-)

So for now you have to stick with the gnome-system-tools 2.27.2. I'm not
sure about the 2.28 stable release, but I guess I won't make it work
with PolicyKit < 0.92 (a.k.a 1.0). Can I do something to help you in
that regard, or is it OK for you to ship the gst version 2.27.2 (which
are quite stable, including mostly bugfixes)?


(I will be away for a few days, I may not answer very quickly.)

Cheers