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Re: Unusual behavior



On 2013-06-08 21:25 +0200, Verde Denim wrote:

> I've been running Wheezy for a few months now and lately (seemingly at
> random times) I get a dialog popping up telling me that "Authentication
> is required to update packages". When I view the details in the dialog,
> it shows the Action as -
> org.freedesktop.packagekit.system-update .  The vendor is listed as "The
> PackageKit Project" which has an URL of http://www.packagekit.org/

That would be http://bugs.debian.org/708548, it seems.

> I don't recall explicitly installing this and was wondering if it is now
> a part of the distro. Thanks for the input.

The gnome-core metapackage indirectly depends on packagekit, so it is
installed on a default Debian desktop.

Cheers,
       Sven


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