Bug#1090384: xfce4: desktop environment metapackage should provide a polkit agent

[Peter Blackman <peter@pblackman.plus.com>]

On 09/07/2025 13:08, Simon McVittie wrote:

> I think the best solution to this for trixie would be for the xfce4 
> metapackage (or maybe xfce4-sesion?) to gain a Depends or Recommends on 
> something like
>
>      xfce-polkit | mate-polkit
>
> which would result in new trixie installations with XFCE getting mate- 
> polkit, and new forky installations with XFCE getting xfce-polkit instead.

Agreed. mate-polkit works perfectly. Thanks for the suggestion.

I've uploaded a fix to mentors
https://bugs.debian.org/1109056

As a DM, that is as far I can go.


Cheers,
Peter


P.S.
I've merged in the other duplicate bugs