[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#787782: libvirt: Please install libpolkit-gobject-1-dev during the build

[Guido Günther]

On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 01:18:51AM +0200, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> Source: libvirt
> Version: 1.2.16-1.1
> Severity: important
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I think that libpolkit-gobject-1-dev should be installed during the
> build to detect if pkcheck_supports_uid is set to true in the .pc file.
> 
> The uid support for pkcheck is available in all the version
> (unstable/experimental) versions of policykit in debian but libvirt
> should test if it supports it.
> 
> see:
> http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-utopia/policykit.git/tree/debian/patches/cve-2013-4288.patch

Just for the record: Jessies and Sids Libvirt use the DBus API to talk
to polkit so it doesn't matter if we detect this feature at configure
time or not, the result isn't used anywhere.
Cheers,
 -- Guido