Bug#462777: kdebase-bin: kdesu needs xauth, but xauth not installed

[Billy Coutsis <chemaja@gmail.com>]

Package: kdebase-bin
Version: 4:3.5.8.dfsg.1-6
Severity: normal

kdesu seems to require the xauth program to successfully launch a program with elevated privileges, however xauth was
not present on my system. For example, running kdesu from konsole to launch konqueror gave this:

mosno@michigan:~$ kdesu konqueror
sh: xauth: command not found
sh: xauth: command not found
sh: xauth: command not found
mosno@michigan:~$

After installing the xauth package, the above launched konqueror as root with no problem.

Now, package kdebase-bin doesn't seem to depend in any way on package xauth. Packages xorg and xbase-clients do, but I
don't have these installed on my system, despite having a working X server and locally-running KDE3 xclients, installed
from Sid.

Perhaps package kdebase-bin should depend on package xauth?


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (800, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages kdebase-bin depends on:
ii  kdebase-bin-kde3       4:3.5.8.dfsg.1-6  core binaries for the KDE base mod
ii  kdelibs4c2a            4:3.5.8.dfsg.1-6  core libraries and binaries for al
ii  libacl1                2.2.45-1          Access control list shared library
ii  libart-2.0-2           2.3.19-3          Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libattr1               1:2.4.39-1        Extended attribute shared library
ii  libaudio2              1.9.1-1           Network Audio System - shared libr
ii  libc6                  2.7-6             GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libfam0                2.7.0-13          Client library to control the FAM
ii  libfontconfig1         2.5.0-2           generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6           2.3.5-1+b1        FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1                1:4.3-20080116-1  GCC support library
ii  libice6                2:1.0.4-1         X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libidn11               1.1-1             GNU libidn library, implementation
ii  libjpeg62              6b-14             The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii  libpam-runtime         0.99.7.1-5        Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g               0.99.7.1-5        Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpng12-0             1.2.15~beta5-3    PNG library - runtime
ii  libqt3-mt              3:3.3.7-9         Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii  libsm6                 2:1.0.3-1+b1      X11 Session Management library
ii  libstdc++6             4.3-20080116-1    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6               2:1.0.3-7         X11 client-side library
ii  libxcursor1            1:1.1.9-1         X cursor management library
ii  libxext6               1:1.0.3-2         X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxft2                2.1.12-2          FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxi6                 2:1.1.3-1         X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1           1:1.0.2-1         X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxkbfile1            1:1.0.4-1         X11 keyboard file manipulation lib
ii  libxrandr2             2:1.2.2-1         X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1            1:0.9.4-1         X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxt6                 1:1.0.5-3         X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  libxtst6               2:1.0.3-1         X11 Testing -- Resource extension
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-11 compression library - runtime

kdebase-bin recommends no packages.

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