I can confirm I'm also seeing this regression. Also policykit-kde is not even available as a package. If I install policykit-gnome then I am prompted for a password from kpackagekit on software install/upgrades.
sudo aptitude show policykit-kde No current or candidate version found for policykit-kde Package: policykit-kde State: not a real package sudo aptitude show kpackagekit Package: kpackagekit New: yes State: installed Automatically installed: no Version: 0.4.2-0ubuntu3 Priority: extra Section: libs Maintainer: Kubuntu Developers <[email protected]> Uncompressed Size: 2,839k Depends: kdebase-runtime (>= 4:4.3.2), kdelibs5 (>= 4:4.3.2), libc6 (>= 2.1.3), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libpackagekit-qt11, libqt4-dbus (>= 4.5.1), libqt4-network (>= 4.5.1), libqt4-sql (>= 4.5.1), libqt4-svg (>= 4.5.1), libqt4-xml (>= 4.5.1), libqtcore4 (>= 4.5.1), libqtgui4 (>= 4.5.1), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1), kdebase-workspace-bin, software-properties-kde, packagekit (>= 0.4.7) Provides: packagekit-kde Description: KDE package management tool using PackageKit PackageKit allows to perform simple software management tasks over a DBus interface e.g. refreshing the cache, updating, installing and removing software packages or searching for multimedia codecs and file handlers. This package provides a package manager and a update notifier. Homepage: http://www.packagekit.org -- [jaunty] kpackagekit doesn't prompt for user password https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/353278 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to policykit-kde in ubuntu. -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
