[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1125141: Bug#1125141: polkitd: polkit-agent-helper-1 missing setuid bit

[Arnaud Rebillout]

On Sat, 10 Jan 2026 11:12:15 +0100 Michael Biebl wrote:
> The problem is, that you can't retroactively fix the old libpolkit
>
> What we could do is trigger a reboot-required message when polkitd is
> upgraded and/or add a NEWS entry which explains the change and tells
> users that they should reboot (or at least log out/log into their
> session again).

I gave it a try, it's here:
https://salsa.debian.org/utopia-team/polkit/-/merge_requests/17

That would be indeed very nice to have an entry in the NEWS file. In
Kali Linux this change have hit our users hard, we had to temporarily
roll back to polkit 126. We'll go back to 127 soon, but we need a
message to inform users that they need to log out/in, and this message
will benefit Debian users as well, it doesn't need to be Kali specific.

Thanks,

-- 
Arnaud Rebillout / OffSec / Kali Linux Developer

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