[Bug 806291] Re: [needs-packaging] Boot-Repair

[Michael Nagel]

- currently, the .desktop calls the "boot-repair" executable, which
calls the script that chooses the best "su" command (e.g. it will call
"gksudo boot-repair"). Do you know a better way to implement it ?

How about creating an explicit boot-repair-wrapper script that chooses the best way to get root permissions?
As an additional precautionary action boot-repair itself could check if it has root permissons and exit otherwise. It would not try to get the permissions itself, however.
The desktop file would call boot-repair-wrapper.

If you are afraid someone might call boot-repair instead of boot-repair-wrapper because it has the nicer name, you might name them
boot-repair (for the wrapper script)
and boot-repair-backend or boot-repair-real (for the current boot-repair)

Just a suggestion.
Best Regards!

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Title:
  [needs-packaging] Boot-Repair

Status in Boot-Repair:
  Confirmed
Status in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in Baltix GNU/Linux:
  New

Bug description:
  Boot-Repair is a small tool to repair frequent boot problems,
  reinstall GRUB, restore MBR...

  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair
  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1769482

  Stable packages are available for 10.04, 10.10, 11.04, 11.10, 12.04 ..
  on https://launchpad.net/~yannubuntu/+archive/boot-repair

  Licence: GPLv3

  It should be included in Ubuntu's repositories.

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