Re: [PATCH] Update nm requirements for Glib and PolicyKit.

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 01:57 +0300, Ahmed S. Darwish wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 10:31:19PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > Ahmed S. Darwish wrote:
> >> Since PolicyKit's commit 2a35667777841f7ea1ef2912963962f04955f9e6, 
> >> libpolkit-dbus has been merged to the main PolicyKit tree and its
> >> pkg-config file has been renamed from 'polkit' to 'polkit-1'. Modify
> >> nm not to explicitly require libpolkit-dbus and to recognize the new
> >> package name.
> >
> > I don't think, it would be a good idea to build-depend on a unreleased 
> > version of PolicyKit, especially as PolicyKit upstream considers the 
> > current head to be a moving target.
> >
> 
> Ooh, I see.
> 
> I was a bit puzzled cause no releases was mentioned on the
> PolicyKit website, but After checking the packages at
> http://packages.debian.org/sid/libpolkit2, I've found that 
> POLICY_KIT_0_8 is possibly the distros agreed-upon version. 

We need to stay compatible with PK 0.6 and later if possible.  There's
already compat code to handle the PK 0.6 cases which we need to update
if there are issues.

Dan