[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#501576: Bug#501576: Bug#501576: libpolkit2: requires files from policykit, but doesn't declare that

[Michael Biebl]

Michael Biebl wrote:
> James Westby wrote:
>> Package: libpolkit2
>> Version: 0.9-1
>> Severity: important
>> Forwarded: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17978
>> User: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
>> Usertags: origin-ubuntu intrepid
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> A full description of the causes of the problem are given
>> in the upstream bug report:
>>
>>   https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17978
>>
>>
>> The summary is that if libpolkit2 is installed, but policykit
>> isn't, calls to polkit_context_init fail due to PolicyKit.conf
>> and other files not being present.
>>
>> It may be that this is an upstream problem or a packaging
>> issue. I hope the maintainer will respond promptly to the issue.
> 
> This is known issue.
> I already discussed this with davidz quite some time ago (I noticed it
> when I tried to enable the policykit support in consolekit).
> There were also quite lengthy discussion about this topic on the hal
> mailing list about circular dependencies between CK and PK.
> 

FWIW this was the reason why I decided to not enable the PK support in
ConsoleKit, to avoid this circular dependency.

Cheers,
Michael


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