[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#689473: Bug#689473: policykit-1: Please update policykit to 0.107

[Michael Biebl]

On 03.10.2012 06:10, Robert Roth wrote:
> Package: policykit-1
> Version: 0.104-2ubuntu1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> Policykit 0.106 and 0.107 have been release including lots of bugfixes and new features.
> It would be nice to have the debian package updated.
> See the NEWS file at http://cgit.freedesktop.org/polkit/tree/NEWS?id=d0d0b3308d75cd7964eec6155427b0eb8f0b70d6
> 

Fwiw, the reason why I haven't updated to version 0.106 or newer is that
starting with that version, the .pkla keyfile format has been replaced
with JavaScript rules files.
I'm not particularly happy about this change and will probably talk to
our security team first before making such an upload. Replacing a
declarative language with a full-featured programming language is a
change I don't agree with, as it makes it much more error-prone.
Besides, existing .pkla files need to be rewritten.

An idea that was floating around, was to write a .rules file which is
able to read the old, declarative .pkla files.


Michael

[1] http://davidz25.blogspot.com/2012/06/authorization-rules-in-polkit.html
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