Bug#806308: gksu: Please create virtual package and alternatives for graphical sudo frontend

[Rogier]

Package: gksu
Version: 2.0.2-9
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

gksudo, kdesudo and lxqt-sudo currently provide similar services, and having
one of them installed on a system should be sufficient IMHO. However, as it
stands, packages are recommending, or even depending on, a specific one
of these frontends.

Please consider creating a virtual package (e.g. sudo-graphical-frontend),
and a desktop-independent executable (e.g. using alternatives) so that packages
that require generic graphical sudo services can depend on and use those.

Maybe that some applications do require a specific frontend, but I'm sure there
is a significant number of packages that works fine with whatever sudo frontend
happens to be installed.

I am submitting this same bug for gksu, kdesudo and lxqt-sudo.

Kind regards,

Rogier.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages gksu depends on:
ii  gconf-service             3.2.6-3
ii  libatk1.0-0               2.16.0-2
ii  libc6                     2.19-18
ii  libcairo2                 1.14.2-2
ii  libfontconfig1            2.11.0-6.3
ii  libfreetype6              2.5.2-4
ii  libgconf-2-4              3.2.6-3
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0        2.31.4-2
ii  libgksu2-0                2.0.13~pre1-8
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.44.1-1
ii  libgnome-keyring0         3.12.0-1+b1
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.24.25-3
ii  libpango-1.0-0            1.36.8-3
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0       1.36.8-3
ii  libpangoft2-1.0-0         1.36.8-3
ii  libstartup-notification0  0.12-4
ii  sudo                      1.8.12-1

Versions of packages gksu recommends:
ii  gnome-keyring  3.16.0-2

gksu suggests no packages.

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