Public bug reported:
screen-resolution-extra depends on policykit-1-gnome | polkit-1-auth-agent . I
recommend changing that to:
gnome-shell | policykit-1-gnome | polkit-1-auth-agent
policykit-1-gnome's package description
---------------------------------------
PolicyKit-gnome provides a D-Bus session bus service that is used to
bring up authentication dialogs used for obtaining privileges.
.
This implementation was originally designed for GNOME 2, but most
GNOME-based desktop environments, including GNOME 3, GNOME Flashback,
and MATE, have their own built-in PolicyKit agents and no longer use
this one. The remaining users of this implementation are Cinnamon, XFCE
and Unity.
Explanation
-----------
Since policykit-1-gnome is no longer required by the default Ubuntu desktop and
is not really maintained upstream any more, I think it should be demoted to
universe.
gnome-shell Provides polkit-1-auth-agent so the current dependency
should have been good enough.
Based on my experience with working on demoting xterm to universe, I
found that germinate doesn't handle alternate dependencies and virtual
packages very well. I had to have packages like xinit recommend gnome-
terminal ahead of xterm in the alternate dependency list. So I think
we'll have to act similarly here to specify the exact dependency we want
in main first in the dependency list.
** Affects: screen-resolution-extra (Ubuntu)
Importance: Low
Status: New
** Tags: disco
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1808583
Title:
Update policykit dependency
Status in screen-resolution-extra package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
screen-resolution-extra depends on policykit-1-gnome | polkit-1-auth-agent .
I recommend changing that to:
gnome-shell | policykit-1-gnome | polkit-1-auth-agent
policykit-1-gnome's package description
---------------------------------------
PolicyKit-gnome provides a D-Bus session bus service that is used to
bring up authentication dialogs used for obtaining privileges.
.
This implementation was originally designed for GNOME 2, but most
GNOME-based desktop environments, including GNOME 3, GNOME Flashback,
and MATE, have their own built-in PolicyKit agents and no longer use
this one. The remaining users of this implementation are Cinnamon, XFCE
and Unity.
Explanation
-----------
Since policykit-1-gnome is no longer required by the default Ubuntu desktop
and is not really maintained upstream any more, I think it should be demoted to
universe.
gnome-shell Provides polkit-1-auth-agent so the current dependency
should have been good enough.
Based on my experience with working on demoting xterm to universe, I
found that germinate doesn't handle alternate dependencies and virtual
packages very well. I had to have packages like xinit recommend gnome-
terminal ahead of xterm in the alternate dependency list. So I think
we'll have to act similarly here to specify the exact dependency we
want in main first in the dependency list.
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