[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#990259: Bug#990259: policykit-1-gnome: crashes under Wayland

[Michael Biebl]

Am 24.06.21 um 08:28 schrieb zsien:
> Package: policykit-1-gnome
> Version: 0.105-7
> Severity: important
> 
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1. Execute `/usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1` under sway
> 2. Start a authentication: `pkexec /bin/sh`
> 
> Actual results:
> Authentication window opens and crashes immediately.
> 
> See also: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/70670.
> 
> And I created a Merge Request: https://salsa.debian.org/utopia-team/polkit-gnome/-/merge_requests/1.

Thanks!

I wanted to ask you to forward this patch to upstream, but it seems 
PolicyKit-gnome has been archived:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/policykit-gnome

Having a security sensitive application with a dead upstream is probably 
not a good idea, so I wonder whether dropping policykit-1-gnome from the 
archive would be a (better) alternative.

Currently, the only hard reverse dependency according to dak is:

Checking reverse dependencies...
# Broken Depends:
cinnamon: cinnamon
cinnamon-control-center: cinnamon-control-center

Dependency problem found.


I thought cinnamon had a builtin PK agent. Either this is not true or 
the dependency is unnecessary.

Simon, should we hand over policykit-1-gnome to the cinnamon maintainers?

Regards,
Michael

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