Bug#492493: When will su-to-root be available by default in Debian ?
Dear all,
su-to-root is recommended by Lintian, but still not usable by default in Debian, causing confusion for users, and strange situations such as bug [1] and [2].
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 ?
(I am developping graphical apps that need to be launched with admin privileges in live-session (whatever the DE), and because of this situation I think I will have to stick with gksu as dependency...)
Best regards
Yann
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=492493
[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+source/lintian/+bug/330533
[3] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.release/19273
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