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 7:20 PM, Michael Biebl <mbiebl gmail com> wrote:
>>
>> > /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.
>
> If that's your policy, then you need to patch /etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf
> to NOT use PolicyKit in a package that doesn't have support for it. This
> is--AFAICT--an upstream bug in hal that this stanza is not removed when
> ./configure finds that PK is not going to be enabled. Now THAT is a bug I
> could file. But, as I've said, I already corrected for that and the problem
> appears to be deeper.

I'm honestly not sure what you are talking about, sorry.
There are no PolicyKit bits in Debians hal.conf. We use the group
based approach as we always did.

Cheers,
Michae


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