Dropping kdesudo

[Dale Trombley]

I'm one of those that always assumed anything graphic needed kdesudo (as
opposed to gksudo). Am I wrong in that assumption?

On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 5:46 PM, Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:

> 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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