[Bug 1745815] [NEW] [patch] screen-resolution-extra should depend on polkit-1-auth-agent instead of policykit-1-gnome

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System: Ubuntu MATE 18.04
Package version: 0.17.1

Expected behavior:

Package screen-resolution-extra should depend on polkit-1-auth-agent.
This would allow installing it in desktop environments that provide
their own PolicyKit authentication agents, like MATE which has mate-
polkit. All these agents provide polkit-1-auth-agent (which is a virtual
package).

Actual behavior:

Package screen-resolution-extra depends on policykit-1-gnome. In MATE
desktop it leads to installation of both mate-polkit and
policykit-1-gnome, which is not needed.

Additional info:

Package screen-resolution-extra is used by nvidia-settings tool,
therefore the problem affects everyone who uses proprietary nvidia
drivers.

The debdiff that is attached below makes screen-resolution-extra depend
on polkit-1-auth-agent, fixing the problem.

** Affects: screen-resolution-extra (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: screen-resolution-extra (Ubuntu Bionic)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: bionic patch
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[patch] screen-resolution-extra should depend on polkit-1-auth-agent instead of policykit-1-gnome
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1745815
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