Comment 77 for bug 353278

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 address hidden>
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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