Re: Bug#492493: When will su-to-root be available by default in Debian ?

2011-08-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 4:40 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: > 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. IMO using P

Re: Bug#492493: When will su-to-root be available by default in Debian ?

2011-08-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery writes: > "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 upd

Re: Bug#492493: When will su-to-root be available by default in Debian ?

2011-08-14 Thread Russ Allbery
"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 maint