[Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#710738: kdesudo: locked to using kdesudo even after dpkg-reconfigure kdesudo and choosing NOT to replace kdesu

[nemesis.lechat@gmail.com]

Package: kdesudo
Version: 3.4.2.4-2
Severity: grave
Tags: d-i
Justification: renders package unusable

Dear Maintainer,

   After the last update, today the 1st of june 2013,

kdesu stopped beeing available. Digging a bit, a realized that the executable
binary is not in the PATH anymore, but in /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu instead,
so I tried :

        - dpkgreconfigure, and then choosed NOT to replace kdesu with kdesudo.
It did not change anything.

        - update-alternatives, but none was found.

        - create a symlink to the kdesu executable, but it simply does not say
/ return anything, and does not work.

I really dislike that a user beeing able to change his/her own password be
allowed to execute privileged commands using that same password (because a
shell could have been obtained via a security flaw), so I avoid using
[kde]sudo. This is why I miss kdesu a lot !

Am I missunderstanding something or do we have a bug here ?
Have a nice day !



-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.9.2 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_CH.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CH.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages kdesudo depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.50
ii  kde-runtime            4:4.8.4-2
ii  libc6                  2.17-3
ii  libgcc1                1:4.8.0-7
ii  libkdecore5            4:4.8.4-4
ii  libkdeui5              4:4.8.4-4
ii  libqt4-dbus            4:4.8.2+dfsg-11
ii  libqt4-svg             4:4.8.2+dfsg-11
ii  libqtcore4             4:4.8.2+dfsg-11
ii  libqtgui4              4:4.8.2+dfsg-11
ii  libstdc++6             4.8.0-7
ii  sudo                   1.8.5p2-1+nmu1

kdesudo recommends no packages.

kdesudo suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
* kdesudo/kdesu: false