We do not want policykit to use the unmaintainable mozjs backend. That would be a hard NACK from the Security Team.
The duktape backend has been merged upstream. So in order to sync this to Ubuntu, the following must be done: 1- Get Debian to switch to the duktape backend 2- Get Debian to transition all packages in the archive from PKLA policy files to JS policy files 3- Transition Ubuntu packages not in Debian from PKLA policy files to JS policy files 4- Investigate Snap policykit support, and if required, transition Snaps from PKLA policy files to JS policy files. Once the transition has been done for all software, policykit can be switched to the duktape policykit backend by syncing the package from Debian. Hopefully at that point it will be in Unstable, and not in experimental. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to policykit-1 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1972654 Title: [security review] Sync policykit-1 0.120-6 (main) from Debian experimental Status in policykit-1 package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Please sync policykit-1 0.120-6 (main) from Debian experimental Changelog entries since current kinetic version 0.105-33: https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/p/policykit-1/changelog-0.120-6 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. It appears the Debian maintainer is considering switching Debian to the updated version in time for the next Debian Stable release (so uploading to unstable later this year). My requested deadline is August 25, Ubuntu 22.10 Feature Freeze. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit-1/+bug/1972654/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
