[Bug 330533] Re: lintian should not complain about gksu

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** Changed in: lintian (Debian)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  lintian should not complain about gksu

Status in “lintian” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “lintian” package in Debian:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: lintian

  Lintian version: 2.2.4

  My package, computer-janitor-gtk, has a .desktop file that calls gksu.
  lintian complains:

  W: computer-janitor-gtk: su-wrapper-not-su-to-root
  /usr/share/applications/computer-janitor-gtk.desktop gksu

  It further provides the following explanation: 
  "The menu item or desktop file command uses an su wrapper other than
  su-to-root. On Debian systems, please use su-to-root -X, which will pick
  the correct wrapper based on what's installed on the system and the
  current desktop environment. Using su-to-root is also important for Live
  CD systems which need to use sudo rather than su. su-to-root permits
  global configuration to use sudo."

  Ubuntu does not contain su-to-root, and gksu seems to be the right way
  to invoke things as root in GNOME on Ubuntu. Lintian should not
  complain in this case.

  I've added an override, but there are probably other packages in the
  same situation, so it would be good to to fix lintian, perhaps by
  disabling this test in the Ubuntu version of lintian.

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