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  1. Bug #466088
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Comment 11 for bug 466088

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Jonathan Wiltshire (jwiltshire) wrote : Re: [Bit-team] [Bug 466088] Re: BackInTime karmic package missing depends on menu

On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 01:06:57PM -0000, Bart de Koning wrote:
> Upstream we use gksu, it is changed to su-to-root in the ubuntu packages,
> however it seems to be a very neat solution for a common encountered
> problem.
> Are there any strong arguments not to switch upstream, eg what is the
> availability of su-to-root on other distributions, like Suse, or Fedora, or
> is it a specific ubuntu implementation?

It was originally a Debian tool and I don't know whether it has been
integrated into any other distributions. A quick Google suggests not, so
you should probably not change it upstream.

You could generate it at build-time if the building system is Debian-based,
but that's probably over-engineering it. The patch isn't exactly a big
delta.

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Jonathan Wiltshire

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