#1032249 gnome-system-tools: should not require a specific polkit authentication agent

Package:
gnome-system-tools
Source:
gnome-system-tools
Description:
Cross-platform configuration utilities
Submitter:
Simon McVittie
Date:
2026-01-10 11:15:37 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1032249#5
Date:
2023-03-02 10:42:11 UTC
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To:
While trying to reproduce #1008313, I noticed that a Debian 12 LXDE
default installation has both lxpolkit and policykit-1-gnome. This seems
unnecessary: lxpolkit is sufficient for LXDE users.

It seems that policykit-1-gnome was installed because gnome-system-tools
has:

Package: gnome-system-tools
Architecture: any
Depends: ...,
         policykit-1-gnome | mate-polkit

This should probably be more like

Package: gnome-system-tools
Architecture: any
Depends: ...,
         policykit-1-gnome | polkit-1-auth-agent

so that any implementation (including for example lxpolkit or gnome-shell)
is considered to be valid.

    smcv
#1032249#12
Date:
2026-01-10 10:08:33 UTC
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