Dropping kdesudo

Aleix Pol aleixpol at kde.org
Tue Sep 5 21:46:18 UTC 2017


On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 11:43 PM, Simon Quigley <tsimonq2 at kubuntu.org> wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> kdesudo is a tool currently installed in Kubuntu that I believe still
> uses Qt/KDE 3 or at minimum Qt/KDE 4 libraries. The upstream (us,
> actually...) doesn't seem to have been committed to it since 2011,
> leaving users with a vulnerable kdesudo application (kdesu has had
> multiple CVEs issued against it). At this point I think it's more of a
> liability to maintain than to drop, and following the mail to drop Qt 4
> in Debian Buster[1], I would like to request feedback and see if anyone
> plans on resurrecting kdesudo or if we should just use kdesu from now on
> (maybe provide a symlink for compatibility) and drop kdesudo.
>
> Thoughts? (Am I missing something?)
>
> [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2017/08/msg00006.html

+1
There's plenty of alternatives nowadays so kdesudo isn't required.

Aleix



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