Public bug reported:

/usr/share/applications/usbview.desktop requires su-to-root:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=USBView
Comment=View USB devices attached to system
Exec=su-to-root -X -c /usr/bin/usbview
Icon=usbview
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Keywords=USB;devices;connected;removable;
Categories=GTK;HardwareSettings;Settings;

su-to-root belongs to package menu:

paulo:~$ apt-file search su-to-root
menu: /etc/su-to-rootrc
menu: /usr/bin/su-to-root
menu: /usr/sbin/su-to-root
menu: /usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/su-to-root.mo
menu: /usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/su-to-root.mo
menu: /usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/su-to-root.mo
menu: /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/su-to-root.mo
menu: /usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/su-to-root.mo
menu: /usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/su-to-root.mo
menu: /usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/su-to-root.mo
menu: /usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/su-to-root.mo
menu: /usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/su-to-root.mo
menu: /usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/su-to-root.mo
menu: /usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/su-to-root.mo
menu: /usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/su-to-root.mo
menu: /usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/su-to-root.mo
menu: /usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/su-to-root.mo
menu: /usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/su-to-root.mo
menu: /usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/su-to-root.mo
menu: /usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/su-to-root.mo
menu: /usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/su-to-root.mo
menu: /usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/su-to-root.mo
menu: /usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/su-to-root.mo
menu: /usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/su-to-root.mo
menu: /usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/su-to-root.mo
menu: /usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/su-to-root.mo
menu: /usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/su-to-root.mo
menu: /usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/su-to-root.mo
menu: /usr/share/man/fr/man1/su-to-root.1.gz
menu: /usr/share/man/man1/su-to-root.1.gz

However, package usbview doesn't pull package menu as a dependency:

paulo:~$ apt show usbview
Package: usbview
Version: 2.0-21-g6fe2f4f-1ubuntu1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/x11
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-disc...@lists.ubuntu.com>
Original-Maintainer: Mark Brown <broo...@debian.org>
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 1.229 kB
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 
2.12.0), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.0.0)
Suggests: usbutils
Homepage: http://www.kroah.com/linux-usb/
Download-Size: 244 kB
APT-Manual-Installed: yes
APT-Sources: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 Packages
Description: USB device viewer
 USBView is a small GTK+ application to show what the device tree of
 the USB bus looks like. It shows a graphical representation of the
 devices that are currently plugged in, showing the topology of the
 USB bus. It also displays information on each individual device on
 the bus.

bug #1327062 is related, although strictly not a duplicate.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: usbview 2.0-21-g6fe2f4f-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-33.36-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-33-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Tue Aug 28 03:39:23 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-04-28 (121 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
SourcePackage: usbview
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: usbview (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug bionic

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