Bug#822597: deken: depends on gksu which is deprecated

Wed Apr 27 21:48:58 UTC 2016

Control: tags -1 fixed-upstream
Thanks.

On 04/25/2016 05:01 PM, pochu at debian.org wrote:
> Source: deken
> Severity: important
> Tags: sid stretch
> User: pkg-gnome-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Usertags: oldlibs gksu
> 
> Hi,
> 
> deken depends on gksu, which is deprecated and unmaintained. Thus we
> want to remove it from the archive.
> 
> deken should switch to a supported and securer way to become root,
> particularly one that doesn't mean running your whole application as
> root (including the GUI), e.g. using polkit.

upstream is now using pkexec.
so for the next release (i expect that to be soonish), the gksu
dependency can be dropped in the Debian package.

> 
> Please try to do this before the Stretch release as we're going to
> try to remove gksu this cycle.
> 
> We'll bump this to serious when the list of rdeps is small and we're
> getting ready to removing gksu completely.
> 
> If you have any question don't hesitate to ask.
> 
> https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/polkit/
> https://wiki.debian.org/PolicyKit
> 
> Cheers, Emilio 
> 
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