[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#422349: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#422349: dbus: Please add support for integrating with libpam-foreground

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On jeu, 2007-06-07 at 15:33 +0100, Simon Huggins wrote:
> Upstream don't like the patch and it looks like for 0.5.10 hal will
> use
> PolicyKit/ConsoleKit which are supposed to be the way forwards for
> this
> stuff.
> 
> The quote from upstream was:
> 
> On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 04:00:22PM -0400, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 13:02 -0500, Steev Klimaszewski wrote:
> > > I believe the plan is to move to PolicyKit/ConsoleKit though not
> > > likely to happen any time before 0.5.10.
> > PolicyKit and ConsoleKit are indeed the future.  They allow D-Bus to
> > ask can I do this without having to deal with policy specific
> > implementations such as pam-console and pam-foreground.
> 
> I'm not sure when this is going to happen though but perhaps the
> utopia
> people do.
> 
> I see there's a ConsoleKit in experimental already.

Now that hal 0.5.10 is in unstable, is there some progress on this?
Consolekit seems to be in unstable too, will installing this solve
everything?

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis Perez