Debian Bug report logs - #867236

gksu: Unsuitable for release in buster

Reported by: Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@ubuntu.com> Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2017 00:15:01 UTC Severity: serious Tags: buster, sid Found in version gksu/2.0.2-9 Fixed in version 2.0.2-9+rm Done: Debian FTP Masters <ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org> Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Bug#867236 ; Package gksu . (Wed, 05 Jul 2017 00:15:04 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

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New Bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to Debian GNOME Maintainers <pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org> . (Wed, 05 Jul 2017 00:15:04 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

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From: Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@ubuntu.com> To: submit <submit@bugs.debian.org> Subject: gksu: Unsuitable for release in buster Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2017 20:12:31 -0400

Package: gksu Version: 2.0.2-9 Severity: serious Usertags: oldlibs gksu Tags: sid buster gksu has been deprecated for years. The intent of gksu is to allow running apps with elevated privileges but the way to do that is for the app developer to use PolicyKit to request elevated privileges for the specific actions that need done instead of for the whole app to run as root. For the next major stable release of Debian (codenamed Buster), the Debian GNOME team plans to default to GNOME on Wayland where gksu does not even work. Therefore, the Debian GNOME team intends to either remove gksu or replace it with a non-functional warning message. gksu is unmaintained (last upload 2014) and is a security vulnerability. On behalf of the Debian GNOME team, Jeremy

Reply sent to Debian FTP Masters <ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org> :

You have taken responsibility. (Wed, 21 Mar 2018 17:23:23 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Notification sent to Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@ubuntu.com> :

Bug acknowledged by developer. (Wed, 21 Mar 2018 17:23:23 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Message #10 received at 867236-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Debian FTP Masters <ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org> To: 257141-done@bugs.debian.org,293830-done@bugs.debian.org,367233-done@bugs.debian.org,382655-done@bugs.debian.org,388373-done@bugs.debian.org,416913-done@bugs.debian.org,425197-done@bugs.debian.org,455726-done@bugs.debian.org,461230-done@bugs.debian.org,461231-done@bugs.debian.org,461384-done@bugs.debian.org,474024-done@bugs.debian.org,479593-done@bugs.debian.org,481689-done@bugs.debian.org,485781-done@bugs.debian.org,490134-done@bugs.debian.org,490136-done@bugs.debian.org,496846-done@bugs.debian.org,504803-done@bugs.debian.org,505114-done@bugs.debian.org,517525-done@bugs.debian.org,520165-done@bugs.debian.org,525011-done@bugs.debian.org,528505-done@bugs.debian.org,528791-done@bugs.debian.org,535495-done@bugs.debian.org,559030-done@bugs.debian.org,559632-done@bugs.debian.org,599233-done@bugs.debian.org,609790-done@bugs.debian.org,611277-done@bugs.debian.org,611343-done@bugs.debian.org,632907-done@bugs.debian.org,639283-done@bugs.debian.org,641300-done@bugs.debian.org,651397-done@bugs.debian.org,652506-done@bugs.debian.org,685037-done@bugs.debian.org,686844-done@bugs.debian.org,687652-done@bugs.debian.org,711105-done@bugs.debian.org,749669-done@bugs.debian.org,751960-done@bugs.debian.org,762960-done@bugs.debian.org,774223-done@bugs.debian.org,776344-done@bugs.debian.org,788182-done@bugs.debian.org,794972-done@bugs.debian.org,805000-done@bugs.debian.org,806308-done@bugs.debian.org,827595-done@bugs.debian.org,849707-done@bugs.debian.org,861338-done@bugs.debian.org,867236-done@bugs.debian.org,867928-done@bugs.debian.org, Cc: gksu@packages.debian.org Subject: Bug#892768: Removed package(s) from unstable Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 17:18:42 +0000

Version: 2.0.2-9+rm Dear submitter, as the package gksu has just been removed from the Debian archive unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry that we couldn't deal with your issue properly. For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/892768 The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/. This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Scott Kitterman (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)

Bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <owner@bugs.debian.org> to internal_control@bugs.debian.org . (Thu, 19 Apr 2018 07:29:50 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

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