New upstream version of system-tools-backends

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Thu Aug 20 09:22:36 UTC 2009


Le jeudi 20 août 2009 à 11:05 +0200, Milan Bouchet-Valat a écrit : 
> > 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)?

We’re probably going to wait for PolicyKit 1 to be packaged, after which
we’ll package g-s-t 2.28.0 together with the rest of the 2.28.0 release
– we don’t usually package development releases.

Cheers,
-- 
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