Anonymous
Thanks, anticapitalista, for the “good news”.
My primary focus in creating this topic is/was toward raising awareness
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FYI: The same, and I mean EXACTLY the same, had motivated (had been used to justify)
the removal of gdebi from debian10 Buster.
gdebi has now been suitably patched to support pkexec
and its presence within the Buster repositories is now (re)assured.
gdebi_0.9.5.7+nmu3_changelog
If you click the link, glancing at the first 20 or so lines you will notice:
+ this is the handiwork of Jeremy Bicha
+ removal of gdebi was due to its relationship with gksu (another of the EEE successfully stomped-out from debian) packages
Over here:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~jbicha/gdebi/nmu-roundup/revision/494
By clicking the triangles displayed left side of page, you can view the (laughably minimal) changes which were made, in order to “bring gdebi into compliance with pkexec”. Literally 3 lines of added code, plus the 20-line policykit rule file. Oh, and during that intervention Bicha siezed the opportunity to axe the “gdebi-kde” variant from the package.
…and behold the doodoo rolling downhill, assimilated downstream //github.com/linuxmint/gdebi/commit/5e3…
The takeaway regarding synaptic (feel free to convince me otherwise):
Gnome camp is pursuing EEE rollout of “appstream”.
Therefore, Gnome camp (embedded into the Debian//Ubuntu dev community) is unwilling to risk
someone adding “3 lines of code” in order to keep synaptic in Ubuntu//Debian.