[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#990271: policykit-1-gnome: unmaintained upstream

Simon McVittie smcv at debian.org
Mon Jun 19 10:18:27 BST 2023


Control: retitle -1 policykit-1-gnome: unmaintained upstream, should not be included in trixie
Control: severity -1 serious
Control: affects -1 cinnamon cinnamon-control-center

On Sun, 26 Feb 2023 at 19:33:10 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jun 2021 11:43:50 +0100 Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org> wrote:
> > 
> > As discussed on #990259, PolicyKit-gnome is no longer maintained upstream
> > and was archived: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/policykit-gnome
> > 
> > The most recent non-translation change appears to have been 2011. This seems
> > bad for a security-sensitive component.
> 
> Let's bump this to RC in trixie so it is removed from testing then.
> This should give rdeps ample notice and once all are updated, we should
> consider RMing the package.

Raising severity to RC as suggested.

Here is what would have to be updated before it can be removed:

smcv at coccia ~ % dak rm -R -n policykit-1-gnome
...
# Broken Depends:
cinnamon: cinnamon
cinnamon-control-center: cinnamon-control-center

    smcv



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