Bug#1104427: release-notes: Removal of policykit-1-gnome

On 21/06/2025 17:49, Richard Lewis wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Jun 2025 at 15:02, Peter Blackman <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 15/06/2025 20:13, Richard Lewis wrote:
>>> or does it mean XFCE is broken in trixie?
>> Looks that way to me.
> 
> it doesnt seem that anyone has reported this as a bug against xfce?
> (without that the chances of it being fixed seem remote - i wonder if
> this bug should be paused until that is done, what do you think?)

It was raised here, last December.
https://bugs.debian.org/1090384


>> At least regarding gui authentication for tools such as synaptic,
>> for fresh installs. I'm assuming on upgrade, policykit-1-gnome
>> could be retained?
> 
> people can always choose to retain a legacy package, or install it
> from an older release. whether it works is a different matter - i dont
> see the release-notes wanting to recommend this as an approach)
> 
>>> ie what do you want XFCE users to do differently in trixie?
>>
>> My preferred solution would be to have xfce-polkit available,
>> but I'm still waiting for a sponsor (for two months now)
> 
> (that must be frustrating, presumably the xcfe team would be best
> place to act as sponsor, did you ask them? it's probably too late to
> add it for trixie now, however)

I posted to the mailing list here;
https://lists.debian.org/debian-xfce/2025/05/msg00007.html