Bug#690337: unblock: gnome-system-log/3.4.1-2

[Michael Biebl]

Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian.org at packages.debian.org
Usertags: unblock

Please unblock package gnome-system-log

gnome-system-log is a viewer to display system logs like
/var/log/syslog. For that it needs special privileges.
We changed the .desktop file to use

Exec=pkexec gnome-system-log

some time ago.

That works for DEs like GNOME shell or KDE but fails in others like Xfce
or GNOME fallback mode. According to policykit upstream, this is
ultimately a bug in those applications launchers (xfce-panel,
gnome-panel) using double forking.

A quick test shows that E17 is also affected by this, there a possibly
more. While we might eventually fix all affected application launchers
(e.g. [1] has a patch for gnome-panel), for wheezy we decided to use a
simple shell wrapper script which works around that problem.

Thanks,
Michael

unblock gnome-system-log/3.4.1-2

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=686059
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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