Remove gksu from Ubuntu
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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edubuntu-netboot (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
gksu (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
libgksu (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
libui-dialog-perl (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
macchanger-gtk (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
network-config (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
sbackup (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
umit (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
Debian has removed gksu. I recommend that we remove gksu and libgksu for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS also.
It is recommended that developers use PolicyKit to only use elevated privileges for the specific actions where it is needed.
It is recommended that users use the gvfs admin backend available in Ubuntu 17.10 and 18.04 LTS. You can do this with the admin:// prefix. For instance, instead of running gksu gedit or gksu nautilus to edit /etc/default/grub, navigate to admin:/
Ubuntu 17.10's default session (a themed GNOME on Wayland) does not support gksu. Ubuntu 18.04 switched back to using X instead of Wayland as default but it is expected that Wayland will once again be the default in 18.10.
$ reverse-depends src:gksu
Reverse-Recommends
==================
* macchanger-gtk (for gksu)
* wicd-gtk (for gksu)
Reverse-Depends
===============
* edubuntu-netboot (for gksu)
* peony-gksu (for gksu)
* umit (for gksu)
List of packages to remove and commentary
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* peony-gksu: NBS
* macchanger-gtk: Removed from Debian Testing in January 2017 for a security bug
* libui-dialog-perl: no other rdepends but macchanger-gtk. This is the security bug that got macchanger-gtk removed from Testing. Debian bug 496448
* edubuntu-netboot: never in Debian. Edubuntu is "on hold" since 2016.
* umit: never in Debian, appears unmaintained upstream since at least 2014 (maybe 2012?)
* gksu
* libgksu
References
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description: | updated |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
tags: | added: bionic |
description: | updated |
no longer affects: | aptoncd (Ubuntu) |
Changed in network-config (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
summary: |
- Remove unmaintained gksu reverse dependencies + Remove gksu from Ubuntu |
no longer affects: | macchanger-gtk (Ubuntu) |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
> * sbackup: never in Debian
Not exactly true. sbackup 0.10.5+nmu1 was removed from Debian on 2017-09-10.