Re: PolicyKit changes in F12

[Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik redhat com>]

On Sunday 24 May 2009 00:33:09 Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
> > How long old PK will be shipped in Fedora?
>
> Shipping old PolicyKit won't really help, as PackageKit etc. are all going
> to get ported to the new one. The only reasonable thing to do is to BLOCK
> the upgrade until it can be supported cross desktop. 

Kevin,
I know but it can add some time for us.

Jaroslav

> I'm really fed up of
> having to play catch up with supposedly "shared" technologies getting
> upgraded under us without anybody talking to KDE upstream or to us
> (Fedora's KDE SIG) about the schedule. The PolicyKit-kde developer even
> WANTS to support the new version, but he didn't get the documentation he
> needs for that (and asked for weeks ago)! (Lack of documentation is a real
> issue for this stuff. When I did the KDM ConsoleKit patch, I had to look at
> source code, both of ConsoleKit and of GDM, to figure out what the heck was
> going on.)
>
>         Kevin Kofler