[Bug 982032] Re: package-data-downloader user.d hook relies on gksudo, not present on Kubuntu

[Steve Langasek]

Ah, pkexec indeed seems to be the magic bit that I had overlooked.
That's much better than creating a whole new dbus service, thanks.

** Also affects: update-notifier (Ubuntu Precise)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: update-notifier (Ubuntu Quantal)
   Importance: Medium
       Status: Triaged

** Changed in: update-notifier (Ubuntu Precise)
       Status: New => Triaged

** Changed in: update-notifier (Ubuntu Precise)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Steve Langasek (vorlon)

** Changed in: update-notifier (Ubuntu Precise)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: update-notifier (Ubuntu Quantal)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Steve Langasek (vorlon)

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Title:
  package-data-downloader user.d hook relies on gksudo, not present on
  Kubuntu

Status in “update-notifier” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “update-notifier” source package in Precise:
  Triaged
Status in “update-notifier” source package in Quantal:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  The package-data-downloader update-notifier hook has an action that
  requires root privileges.  In the interest in expedience, this button
  uses gksudo in precise; but gksudo is not included in Kubuntu.

  This needs to be fixed to either use policykit + a dbus service (which
  may be too heavyweight for this despite being the preferred security
  model?), or to use use something like ubiquity's "get root any way I
  can" wrapper.

  Neither of these fixes is going to make it for precise .0, however.
  This is inconvenient, but the dialog is only presented in case of a
  download failure anyway.

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