[Bug 867737] Re: Kubuntu desktop missing dependency on polkit-kde-1

[Jonathan Thomas]

The libqapt-runtime package (which handles package installation for Muon
including authentication) depends on polkit-kde-1 or policykit-1-gnome,
meaning that either package being installed handles the dependency. As
long as the polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 process is running, the
gnome polkit gui will work for this.

It seems, though, that the polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 service is restricted to auto-starting in gnome...
The KDE polkit auth agent service also only starts in KDE, too.

At first this would seem to be desirable, as to not have two
authentication daemons running at once, but polkit takes care of this.
Only one agent can be registered as the authentication agent, so
attempting to start the KDE agent after the GNOME agent has started
would just cause the KDE agent to quit since it could not register
itself with polkit. This means that the OnlyShow=Gnome/KDE entry in the
autostart files are unnecessary, and the frontends could be truly
interchangeable if this was dropped, fulfilling the current assumptions
that the packaging makes.

** Package changed: kubuntu-meta (Ubuntu) => polkit-kde-1 (Ubuntu)

** Also affects: policykit-1-gnome (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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  Kubuntu desktop missing dependency on polkit-kde-1

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