That sucks. That means that upstreams can't write JS rules files, because Debian / Ubuntu wouldn't enforce them. But that also means that it might be possible for us to revert back out of JS rules files.
( I do wonder how Debian runs gnome-initial-setup then -- https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-initial-setup/tree/data/20-gnome-initial-setup.rules -- there's one upstream that uses that ability ) Miloslav, do you want to consider reverting JS rules files then, if Debian is never going to switch to them? On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 6:09 PM, Michael Biebl <mbi...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2015-08-18 20:11 GMT+02:00 Shawn Walker-Salas <shawn.wal...@oracle.com>: >> polkit's dependency on mozjs is a royal pain, especially for distributions >> that build on more "niche" platforms where mozjs is only recently gaining >> support for some hardware and operating systems. > > Let me add here, that Debian and Ubuntu never made the switch to a > JS-based polkit, i.e. we still use v0.105 in all our current stable > releases and development branches. > > The idea of using a turing complete language which makes it impossible > to audit the polkit configuration never struck us as a good idea. > Also seeing the pain which is involved getting polkit updated to newer > mozjs releases, and the fact that mozjs, afaik, is not officially > blessed/security supported by mozilla, didn't really to convince us to > do the switch either. > > Michael > > > -- > Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the > universe are pointed away from Earth? -- Jasper _______________________________________________ polkit-devel mailing list polkit-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/polkit-devel
