#808836 zoneminder only installs polkit rules compatible with version >= 0.112

Package:
zoneminder
Source:
zoneminder
Description:
video camera security and surveillance solution
Submitter:
Laurent Bigonville
Date:
2021-12-02 02:09:03 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#808836#5
Date:
2015-12-23 14:57:27 UTC
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Hi,

zoneminder installs a polkit rule file that only works for polkit >= 0.112
meanwhile unstable only has 0.105.

You should also install a rules file for this version of polkit.

Cheers,

Laurent Bigonville
#808836#16
Date:
2019-01-23 09:14:32 UTC
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As per a comment on the upstream bug 1264, why even is there a hard
dependency on policy kit?

https://github.com/ZoneMinder/ZoneMinder/issues/1264#issuecomment-325999624

Policy kit has a hard dependency on systemd, which drags in a whole bunch
of other dependencies that I'd rather not have on my webserver.

If it was a recommends or a suggest instead, and the code had an option
to use sudo for the service restarting (the standard way of handling
privileges in portable trusted code), then this would be good.
#808836#21
Date:
2019-01-23 11:50:00 UTC
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Due to upstream build system defaults.

It has been addressed in 1.32 through `ZM_SYSTEMD=OFF` build option.

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#808836#26
Date:
2021-12-01 20:32:15 UTC
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[Dmitry Smirnov 2019-10-23]

Does this mean this bug should have been closed with the upload of 1.32.1-1?
#808836#31
Date:
2021-12-02 01:47:08 UTC
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Probably not. Only hard dependency on systemd was addressed but not the
compatibility of the polkit rules, unless upstream changed polkit rules
quietly...

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