Re: Proposed external dep: PolicyKit

["Michael Biebl" <mbiebl gmail com>]

2008/7/23 Jason D. Clinton <me jasonclinton com>:
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 7:02 PM, Michael Biebl <mbiebl gmail com> wrote:
>>
>> 2008/7/22 Rob Taylor <rob taylor codethink co uk>:
>>
>> Hi Rob,
>>
>> > Just as a quick note, Jason's problem is completly a debian unstable
>> > packaging issue, as far as I can tell.
>>
>> Care to eloborate, why and what the actual problem actually is
>> (especially regarding Debian)?
>
> /usr/share/PolicyKit/policy files in the 0.5.11 upstream distribution are
> not being installed by the Debian hal package.

That's quite simple. The current hal package we ship in Debian doesn't
have PolicyKit support enabled, so no PolicyKit policy files are
installed.
So there's no packaging issue afaics.
It's just a deliberate decision the Debian package maintainers took to
not enable this feature.
After the lenny release, we will reconsider this decision and likely
enable the PolicyKit support.

Cheers,
Michael


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