policykit-desktop-privileges is not installed by defaut on Lubuntu 13.10

[Pierre Gobin]

On a fresh installation of Lubuntu 13.10, the package "policykit-desktop-privileges" is not installed. However, it should be a lubuntu-desktop dependency : http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~lubuntu-dev/ubuntu-seeds/lubuntu.saucy/view/head:/desktop

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: lubuntu-desktop 0.52
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-12.19-generic 3.11.3
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-12-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Nov 13 19:47:10 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-11-13 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release i386 (20131016.1)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: lubuntu-meta
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Julien Lavergne (gilir)]

This is actually very tricky : policykit-desktop-privileges is set as a depends in lubuntu-desktop seed, which depends on lubuntu-core seed, which depends on desktop-common seed (in platform.*). But, policykit-desktop-privileges is set as a recommends in desktop-common, and since lubuntu seeds don't follow recommends, the entry in desktop-common is ignored. However, the entry in lubuntu-desktop is also ignored, because germinate (or something in the building process) catch the entry in lubuntu-desktop as a duplicate, not an overwrite. Currently, I don't know if I'm doing something wrong in the seed, or if it's really a bug in germinate.

In the meantime, I'll add it as a depends of lubuntu-default-settings, that should workaround the issue for the short-term.

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