Bug#492493: When will su-to-root be available by default in Debian ?
Dear all, su-to-root is recommended by Lintian, but still not usable by default in Debian, causing confusion for users, and strange situations such as bug [1] and [2]. For memory, 2 alternative solutions were proposed in 2008's discussion [3] : - move su-to-root into debianutils where it would always be available, - or introducing an xdg-* utility into xdg-utils that does the same thing any update ? (I am developping graphical apps that need to be launched with admin privileges in live-session (whatever the DE), and because of this situation I think I will have to stick with gksu as dependency...) Best regards Yann [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=492493 [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+source/lintian/+bug/330533 [3] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.release/19273
Bug#492493: When will su-to-root be available by default in Debian ?
yannubu...@gmail.com yannubu...@gmail.com writes: For memory, 2 alternative solutions were proposed in 2008's discussion [3] : - move su-to-root into debianutils where it would always be available, - or introducing an xdg-* utility into xdg-utils that does the same thing any update ? The debianutils maintainer is not willing to include su-to-root. I haven't heard of any progress on the xdg-* front. (I am developping graphical apps that need to be launched with admin privileges in live-session (whatever the DE), and because of this situation I think I will have to stick with gksu as dependency...) Why don't you just depend on menu and use su-to-root? It would be friendlier for people who aren't using GNOME, and you're already having to depend on the package that provides the tool you want to use. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-lint-maint-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87fwl3jt65@windlord.stanford.edu
Bug#492493: When will su-to-root be available by default in Debian ?
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: yannubu...@gmail.com yannubu...@gmail.com writes: For memory, 2 alternative solutions were proposed in 2008's discussion [3] : - move su-to-root into debianutils where it would always be available, - or introducing an xdg-* utility into xdg-utils that does the same thing any update ? The debianutils maintainer is not willing to include su-to-root. I haven't heard of any progress on the xdg-* front. Oh, sorry, I misremembered -- I don't recall the debianutils maintainer weighing in. I think that statement was about sensible-utils, not debianutils. I generally agree with the idea that something cross-distro would be better, and hence xdg-su would be the best solution, but if they're not willing to use anything other than PolicyKit, that seems like a showstopper there. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87bovrjt1r@windlord.stanford.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-lint-maint-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87bovrjt1r@windlord.stanford.edu
