Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur) has reached end of life, so this bug will
not be fixed for that specific release.
** Changed in: gdebi (Ubuntu Mantic)
Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix
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I searched around everywhere when writing my blog about this bug (linked
in the LWN article), and could not locate a newer source code
repository. It looks like even the changeover to use pkexec that
introduced this bug in the first place was an NMU by Debian at the end
of 2017.
I didn't think abo
Note that Linux weekly news wrote about this bug in
https://lwn.net/Articles/981565/
Was fixing this so tricky ultimately because the gdebi project is dead?
If the project was alive, one could simply submit the fix upstream and it would
flow out in next releases or be backported easily?
Looking
This bug was fixed in the package gdebi - 0.9.5.7+nmu7ubuntu0.24.10.1
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gdebi (0.9.5.7+nmu7ubuntu0.24.10.1) oracular; urgency=medium
[ Doug Brown ]
* GDebi/GDebiGtk.py: stay alive for pkexec (LP: #1854588)
-- Andreas Hasenack Fri, 05 Jul 2024 14:45:08
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