[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#765346: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Uploading 112-2 to sid

[Guido Günther]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 03:48:23PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Ho Guido,
> 
> Am 14.10.2014 um 15:02 schrieb Guido Günther:
> > Hi,
> > there seem to be issues with older polkit and libvirt (see
> > 765045). Updating to 112 seems to fix this. Are there any plans to
> > upload that version to sid (and finally in jessie)?

I can understand that but what's the way forward here then? Are we
going to stick with 105 forever (forking it). Just delaying it without
an alternative doesn't seem good either.

> 
> last time I talked to Martin about this, he wasn't too thrilled by the
> thought of uploading the JavaScript/rules files based version to unstable.
> 
> I quickly glanced over #765045 and it's not clear to me, why a old-style
> .pkla file is not sufficient in your case? You can ship that alongside
> the new .rules file. Can you elaborate?

Ahh...thanks, I expected that 105 already supported JS based (since
polkit upstream has this since ages). Thanks for confirming!
Cheers,
 -- Guido