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Rewrite Description to say that despite its name, GNOME does not use this Simon McVittie 7 years ago
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1818 not get launched in XFCE or Unity as intended. (Closes: #842184)
1919 * Mark policykit-1-gnome as Multi-arch: foreign. Its only API is via
2020 D-Bus and is cross-architecture.
21 * Rewrite Description to say that despite its name, GNOME does not
22 use this (but XFCE and Unity do).
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2224 -- Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> Thu, 27 Oct 2016 10:55:45 +0100
2325
2424 ${misc:Depends},
2525 ${shlibs:Depends}
2626 Provides: polkit-1-auth-agent
27 Description: GNOME authentication agent for PolicyKit-1
27 Description: XFCE and Unity authentication agent for PolicyKit-1
2828 PolicyKit-gnome provides a D-Bus session bus service that is used to
2929 bring up authentication dialogs used for obtaining privileges.
30 .
31 This implementation was originally designed for GNOME 2, but most
32 GNOME-based desktop environments, including GNOME 3, GNOME Flashback,
33 MATE and Cinnamon, have their own built-in PolicyKit agents and no
34 longer use this one. The remaining users of this implementation
35 are XFCE and Unity.