[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] seeking advice regarding policykit upload (#510646)

[Michael Biebl]

Hi release team,

policykit is one of the packages with an RC bug, blocking the new dbus upload
with stricter permissions.
The current version of policykit in testing is 0.8-2,
for unstable I had (unfortunately) uploaded a new upstream version 0.9-1 quite
some time ago, and so the bug fix was uploaded as 0.9-2.

Now, the diffstat between 0.8 and 0.9 (code related) contains quite some changes:

diff -urN PolicyKit-0.8/src/ PolicyKit-0.9/src/ | diffstat
 Makefile.in                                 |    3
 kit/Makefile.am                             |    1
 kit/Makefile.in                             |    7 +
 kit/kit-file.c                              |    8 +
 kit/kit-file.h                              |    1
 kit/kit-lib.c                               |  136 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 kit/kit-lib.h                               |   52 ++++++++++
 kit/kit-spawn.c                             |    1
 kit/kit-string.c                            |   22 ++++
 kit/kit.h                                   |    1
 polkit-dbus/Makefile.am                     |    8 +
 polkit-dbus/Makefile.in                     |   11 +-
 polkit-dbus/polkit-read-auth-helper.c       |   18 ++-
 polkit-dbus/polkit-resolve-exe-helper.c     |   12 --
 polkit-dbus/polkit-set-default-helper.c     |    9 -
 polkit-grant/Makefile.am                    |   11 +-
 polkit-grant/Makefile.in                    |   19 ++-
 polkit-grant/polkit-explicit-grant-helper.c |    9 -
 polkit-grant/polkit-grant-helper-pam.c      |   11 --
 polkit-grant/polkit-grant-helper.c          |   11 --
 polkit-grant/polkit-grant.c                 |   48 ---------
 polkit-grant/polkit-revoke-helper.c         |    9 -
 polkit/Makefile.am                          |   10 +-
 polkit/Makefile.in                          |   16 ++-
 polkit/polkit-config.c                      |    1
 polkit/polkit-context.c                     |  127 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 polkit/polkit-policy-cache.c                |    8 +
 polkit/polkit-policy-file.c                 |   21 ----
 polkit/polkit-sysdeps.c                     |   41 ++++++++
 29 files changed, 486 insertions(+), 146 deletions(-)


Nonetheless, I'm asking what the release team prefers:
An unblock of 0.9-2 or a t-p-u upload with a fix for policykit 0.8?

As the fix only contains changes to the conf file, the patch for 0.8 and 0.9 is
basically the same.

For the t-p-u upload, what version number would you prefer: 0.8-3 or 0.8-2lenny1?


Cheers,
Michael

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