If you disable the installation of recommended packages, then you have to accept a loss of functionality, such as the missing menu entry for the wireshark (root) option. Wireshark does not require gksu/menu to provide core functionality, so making it a dependency is inappropriate. For an advanced user who explicitly chooses not install this recommended package, I think it's reasonable for the entry not to exist. Remember, this is no different to the way it currently works (at least before this broken version); if you do not have gksu installed, then you have no root menu entry. Wireshark can still be used, but if the user makes the decision not to install the recommended package, it should be up to them to work around the missing functionality.
I think the best option here is the latest patch submitted by Nathan. Changing a single word solves our problems :-) -- no run as root in menu in hardy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/209084 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
