FS#34555 - [gdm][gnome-session] 3.8.0 Unneeded dependency: polkit-gnome

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Balló György (City-busz) - Monday, 01 April 2013, 17:46 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Tuesday, 02 April 2013, 21:51 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Testing
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Since fallback mode gone, polkit-gnome is no longer used by GNOME, because gnome-shell has an internal PolicyKit authentication agent[1]. So polkit-gnome dependency of gdm and gnome-session is unnecessary, and can be removed. See the related commits in Fedora:
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/gdm.git/commit/?id=4c394bb394c90913c131689ab6f8b3f181ff5852
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/gnome-session.git/commit/?id=2a43f2f18023ec9196fb5671d29671b71a7a9fe9

[1] https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/commit/?id=86b925a294aaaf9f5f3936e060294273cafbb40e
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Tuesday, 02 April 2013, 21:51 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Note that nm-applet still pulls in polkit-gnome

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