[Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#806307: kdesudo: Please create virtual package and alternatives for graphical sudo frontend

[Rogier]

Package: kdesudo
Version: 3.4.2.4-2
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 kdesudo depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.56
ii  kde-runtime            4:4.14.2-2
ii  libc6                  2.19-18
ii  libgcc1                1:5.1.1-9
ii  libkdecore5            4:4.14.2-5
ii  libkdeui5              4:4.14.2-5
ii  libqt4-dbus            4:4.8.6+git155-g716fbae+dfsg-2
ii  libqt4-svg             4:4.8.6+git155-g716fbae+dfsg-2
ii  libqtcore4             4:4.8.6+git155-g716fbae+dfsg-2
ii  libqtgui4              4:4.8.6+git155-g716fbae+dfsg-2
ii  libstdc++6             5.1.1-9
ii  sudo                   1.8.12-1

kdesudo recommends no packages.

kdesudo suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
* kdesudo/kdesu: true