Re: Possible mass bug filling for package depending on
On Sun 30/10/11 18:51, "Russ Allbery" rra@debian.org wrote:
> Frank lin Piat fpiat@klabs.be writes:
> On Sun 30/10/11 11:31 , Daniel Baumann wrote::
> >> packages that need root have to use su-to-root in order to play
> >> well on live systems (where you know at runtime if sudo,
> >> su, gksu, $whatever has to be used). your package list contains
> >> such cases. [..]
> > What about moving the su-to-root binary to a different
> > binary package ?
> > Bill what's your PoV about spliting it ?
>
> We've had this discussion many times, unfortunately, without any
> forward progress at all. Bill would like there to be an xdg-su
> or the like that is part of xdg-utils.
A XDG standard would be nice (and is the best solution), but to be
useful it sould be adopted by all existing software in Debian.
> xdg-utils upstream doesn't want to support anything like that
> because they prefer PolicyKit (as I understand it).
I certainly agree that PolicyKit seems to have some nice features
and therefore I understand that Freedesktop wants to go ahead with
it in the future. (I also understand that they don't want to develop
a *new* tool for legacy software using "Prior Art"/flaws [1]).
Unfortunately, from a Debian perspective, we have a different
problem: we have lots of *existing* software that were designed
according to the so called "Prior Art"[1].
It seems unrealistic to me that all existing software ever get
migrated to a $POLICYKIT thing. Many of those software will
remain as-is and die once they are superseded, and it is going
to take a while.
So we need to maintain a tool compatible with the existing
sofware and art, don't we?
(We might even imagine that at some point, some sysadmin will want
to make sure that no single $SUDO program is installed in their
permises, but that's another story).
> Clint isn't interested in adding a sensible-su with similar
> functionality to sensible-utils.
> Bill wasn't interested in splitting menu in the absence of one of
> those more general solutions.
>
> We're at an impasse and have been for about three years.
(Thanks, I fount #514882 on this topic).
Any chance to go ahead? It would be a pity if the only solution was to
fork su-to-root (and possible merge xdg-su[2]) in a new source+binary
package :-(
Regards,
Franklin
[1] http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/PolicyKit/polkit-spec-history.html
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=514882#26
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