Public bug reported:

caja-gksu depends on gksu but gksu is deprecated (PolicyKit is
preferred). Also gksu depends on gconf.

The only thing keeping gconf and gksu in the default Ubuntu MATE install
is caja-gksu. (Well, except for gdebi but I just pinged ~mvo about that,
see https://bugs.debian.org/822596 )

One interesting feature available in the gvfs used by Ubuntu 17.04 and
Debian Stretch is the admin:/// URI. I haven't tried on caja but it
should work in gtk3 apps. (If you were Googling for it, gvfs calls it
the admin backend.)

So instead of navigating to the /etc/apt/ directory, you could navigate
to admin:///etc/apt/ if your user had admin privileges.

** Affects: ubuntu-mate-meta (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Description changed:

  caja-gksu depends on gksu but gksu is deprecated (PolicyKit is
  preferred). Also gksu depends on gconf.
  
  The only thing keeping gconf and gksu in the default Ubuntu MATE install
- is caja-gksu.
+ is caja-gksu. (Well, except for gdebi but I just pinged ~mvo about that,
+ see https://bugs.debian.org/822596 )
  
  One interesting feature available in the gvfs used by Ubuntu 17.04 and
  Debian Stretch is the admin:/// URI. I haven't tried on caja but it
  should work in gtk3 apps. (If you were Googling for it, gvfs calls it
  the admin backend.)
  
  So instead of navigating to the /etc/apt/ directory, you could navigate
  to admin:///etc/apt/ if your user had admin privileges.

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  Consider not recommending caja-gksu

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