Is this going to happen in 23.10? It seems to have been stalled in -proposed since May.
After the imminent Debian 12 release (which includes polkit 122), I intend to start removing legacy polkit 0.105 support, with my goal being polkitd-pkla no longer existing in Debian 13, and packages no longer shipping legacy polkitd-pkla configuration in /var/lib. If Ubuntu still needs this after that point, then you'll have to patch it back in where necessary. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to policykit-1 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1972654 Title: [security review] Sync policykit-1 121+compat0.1-5 (main) from Debian unstable Status in policykit-1 package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Please sync policykit-1 121+compat0.1-5 (main) from Debian unstable for Ubuntu 23.04 Changelog entries since current kinetic version 0.105-33: https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/p/policykit-1/policykit-1_121%2Bcompat0.1-4_changelog In particular, see the 0.120-4 changelog entry. I am filing a bug for Security Team review. Previously, Debian and Ubuntu developers agreed to keep using the last version of policykit before it switched to using JavaScript rules. But that was years ago. I believe Debian & Ubuntu are the only distros to have opted out of the new policykit. It is harder to maintain the old style rules when upstream rules use the new format. And it is a challenge to backport security and other bugfixes from the new series, without making mistakes or missing important details. There was a proposal to use duktape instead of mozjs for the JavaScript interpreter but I don't think that's been merged yet. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit-1/+bug/1972654/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
