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

[Michael Biebl]

Am 24.06.21 um 11:03 schrieb 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 PolicyKit-gnome has been archived: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?
> 


Bringing the cinnamon maintainers into the loop here.


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