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

[Michael Biebl]

James Westby wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 18:01 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Thanks, I wasn't aware that this topic had been dicussed. I'm aware
> of the discussion over the circular dependency, and I agree with you.
> 
>> We couldn't agree on a acceptable solution yet.
>> Some ideas floating around, were:
>> a.) ship PolicyKit.conf in libpolkit2. Imo a no-go, as it would make
>> future library transitions painful (libpolkit2 and libpolkit3 wouldn't
>> be co-installable)
>> b.) Create the config file in libpolkit2.postinst. Would be quite
>> hackish, and we'd have to move the user creation into
>> libpolkit2.postinst, so we can successfully chown the file.
>> c.) Move the *single* conf file into a separate package
>> libpolkit-common. Quite some overhead
>> d.) Do nothing within libpolkit2. Other software should gracefully
>> handle the case, when polkit_context_init fails.
>> e.) Change polkit_context_init to not fail if PolicyKit.conf is not
>> present. Don't think this is a good idea.
> 
> Can I ask why not e? As I point out in the upstream bug the
> non-existance of the file isn't fatal when it is read to determine
> the settings, so unless it is relying on the calling code stopping
> after polkit_context_init failure it allows an empty file.

I was pondering about that, too.
But I see it as this: polkit_context_init returning a non-zero return
code means to me, that the full PolicyKit stack is not available/functional.
Imo the question is: Is libpolkit actually fully usable/functional
without the complete policykit package being installed?

Michael

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