Polkit-1 Shadow Patch

Robby Workman rw at rlworkman.net
Sat Jun 26 21:27:18 PDT 2010


On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 17:14:08 -0400
Andrew Psaltis <ampsaltis at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was wondering what the status of my patch is.
> 
> It is currently in at least one distribution's package and no
> problems have been reported so far, so all that seems to be left is
> just a review so it can hit upstream.
> 
> Also, I was wondering if you could take a look at the potential
> security bug that Petr Mrazek found a little while ago:
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/polkit-devel/2010-May/000308.html
> 
> I understand that you are busy with other projects, but given the
> necessity and importance of polkit-1 in modern desktops, I would
> appreciate it if you could look into getting it into the mainline as
> soon as it is possible.  I will have time to implement any fixes that
> are suggested in the near future.


David,

I don't understand - is this *ever* going to be reviewed?

What's the delay?  Are you rewriting policykit again or some such?  :-)
Seriously, is there something that I/we didn't do, or do you need more
information about something, etcetera?  

-RW


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