[Bug 993673] Re: The package-data-downloads-failed* interactive upgrade hooks use gksudo to run package-data-downloader

[Jonathan Thomas]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 982032 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/982032

** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 982032
   package-data-downloader user.d hook relies on gksudo, not present on Kubuntu

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Title:
  The package-data-downloads-failed* interactive upgrade hooks use
  gksudo to run package-data-downloader

Status in “update-notifier” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  The package-data-downloads-failed* interactive upgrade hooks use
  gksudo to run the package-data-downloader script. The update-notifier-
  common package does not declare a dependency on gksudo, nor should it,
  as other desktop environments will not have this component installed.
  (This hook is broken on Kubuntu) The best course of action is to use
  something cross-distro such as pkexec for handling launching the
  script as root.

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