Devuan bug report logs - #911
libpolkit-gobject-consolekit-1-0: Ships the elogind variant of the library

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.devuan.org (full text, mbox, reply):

Package: libpolkit-gobject-consolekit-1-0
Version: 0.105+26+devuan1
Severity: grave
Justification: ships the wrong shared-object library

Dear Maintainer,

Starting from version 0.105-26+devuan1, the
libpolkit-gobject-consolekit-1-0 package incorrectly ships the variant
of libpolkit-gobject-1.so.0.0.0 compiled with elogind session-tracking
rather than the variant compiled with ConsoleKit session-tracking. This
can be easily verified by comparing the checksums of the included
libpolkit-gobject-1.so.0.0.0 file in each of the
libpolkit-gobject-consolekit-1-0 and libpolkit-gobject-elogind-1-0
packages.


# Fix

Once this report is assigned a bug number, I will shortly be submitting
'git am'-ready patches to remedy this issue.


# Explanation

The issue lies with an interaction involving three commands in the
override_dh_install recipe in debian/rules, specifically
```
	dh_install -plibpolkit-gobject-consolekit-1-0 \
		--sourcedir=debian/install/consolekit
	dh_install -a -Nlibpolkit-gobject-consolekit-1-0
	[...]
	dh_install
```

The first command is required in order to copy the build of the
ConsoleKit variant of the library from its non-standard DESTDIR at
debian/install to the staging directory for the 
libpolkit-gobject-consolekit-1-0 binary package.

The second command then handles staging the files for the rest of the
arch-dependent packages, copying files from debian/tmp, the default
DESTDIR.

This leaves the third command with the task of staging the files for
all the remaining binary package which by this point should be all of
the arch-independent packages. However, because the command lacks
either a '-i' or '--remaining-packages' argument, it incorrectly stages
the files for *all* binary packages, copying files from only the
standard DESTDIR. This has the unfortunate consequence of re-staging
the libpolkit-gobject-consolekit-1-0 package, copying the elogind
variant of the library from within debian/tmp rather than the
ConsoleKit variant from debian/install.

-- 
Plasma

Message #10 received at 911@bugs.devuan.org (full text, mbox, reply):

Hi,

On 9/27/25 09:57, Plasma (David Paul) wrote:

> This leaves the third command with the task of staging the files for
> all the remaining binary package which by this point should be all of
> the arch-independent packages. However, because the command lacks
> either a '-i' or '--remaining-packages' argument, it incorrectly stages
> the files for *all* binary packages, copying files from only the
> standard DESTDIR.

Is that a Devuan specific change, or is that bug also present in the 
Debian package?

   Simon

Message #15 received at 911@bugs.devuan.org (full text, mbox, reply):

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

Control: tags -1 patch

Dear Maintainer,

Attached are two patches which fix #911. They can be applied to the
head of the suites/unstable branch in the policykit-1 packaging
repository. Please also consider backporting them into
excalibur-proposed for the upcoming Excalibur release.

-- 
Plasma

[0001-refactor-rules-Move-ubuntu-specific-snippet.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

[0002-Fix-override_dh_install-target.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

Message #22 received at 911@bugs.devuan.org (full text, mbox, reply):

On Sat, 27 Sep 2025 10:05:41 +0900
Simon Richter <sjr@debian.org> wrote:

> On 9/27/25 09:57, Plasma (David Paul) wrote:
> 
> > This leaves the third command with the task of staging the files for
> > all the remaining binary package which by this point should be all
> > of the arch-independent packages. However, because the command lacks
> > either a '-i' or '--remaining-packages' argument, it incorrectly
> > stages the files for *all* binary packages, copying files from only
> > the standard DESTDIR.  
> 
> Is that a Devuan specific change, or is that bug also present in the 
> Debian package?
> 
>     Simon

This is a Devuan-specific issue. Debian is unaffected by this bug, but
may wish to adopt a modified version of the refactor present in the
first of the two patches I submitted to resolve this Devuan issue.
Adapting the refactor patch for Debian may not be worth it though as,
apart from simplifying the second patch in the series, the refactor
patch borders on splitting hairs. See the attached commit message for
details.

-- 
Plasma

Message #31 received at 911@bugs.devuan.org (full text, mbox, reply):

Plasma,

Thanks for your analysis and care with this.

I prefer to resolve the first of your suggested patches by realigning more
closely with Debian's d/rules.

Mark

commit 2f09bfa62e597cbfb9385e2807c84db05cd68247
Author: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>
Date:   Mon Sep 29 15:05:08 2025 +0100

    d/rules: reduce unnecessary delta with Debian.

diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 8bba501e..152405ee 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -80,6 +80,14 @@ override_dh_auto_install:
 	dh_auto_install
 	dh_auto_install --builddirectory=build-consolekit --destdir=debian/install/consolekit
 
+execute_before_dh_install:
+	# on Debian use sudo group; on Ubuntu, also allow the admin group for
+	# on Debian/Devuan use sudo group; on Ubuntu, also allow the admin group for
+	# historical reasons
+	if dpkg-vendor --is ubuntu; then \
+		install -m644 debian/49-ubuntu-admin.rules debian/tmp/usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/; \
+	fi
+
 override_dh_install:
 	dh_install \
 	-plibpolkit-gobject-consolekit-1-0       \
@@ -88,9 +96,4 @@ override_dh_install:
 	dh_install -a                           \
 	-Nlibpolkit-gobject-consolekit-1-0
 
-	# on Debian/Devuan use sudo group; on Ubuntu, also allow the admin group for
-	# historical reasons
-	if dpkg-vendor --is ubuntu; then \
-		install -m644 debian/49-ubuntu-admin.rules debian/tmp/usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/; \
-	fi
 	dh_install

Message #36 received at 911-done@bugs.devuan.org (full text, mbox, reply):

Version: 126-2devuan2

Source package policykit-1 (126-2devuan2) added to Devuan suite unstable.

This closes bug report 911.

Thanks

DAK managing the Devuan archive

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Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2025 15:22:55 +0100
Source: policykit-1
Architecture: source
Version: 126-2devuan2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Devuan Dev Team <devuan-dev@lists.dyne.org>
Changed-By: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>
Closes: 911
Changes:
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 .
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   * d/rules: reduce unnecessary delta with Debian.
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Message #41 received at 911-done@bugs.devuan.org (full text, mbox, reply):

Version: 126-2devuan1+excalibur1

Source package policykit-1 (126-2devuan1+excalibur1) added to Devuan suite excalibur-proposed-updates.

This closes bug report 911.

Thanks

DAK managing the Devuan archive

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Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2025 20:18:39 +0100
Source: policykit-1
Architecture: source
Version: 126-2devuan1+excalibur1
Distribution: excalibur-proposed-updates
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Devuan Dev Team <devuan-dev@lists.dyne.org>
Changed-By: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>
Closes: 911
Changes:
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 .
   [ Mark Hindley ]
   * d/rules: reduce unnecessary delta with Debian.
 .
   [ Plasma (David Paul) ]
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Message #46 received at 911-done@bugs.devuan.org (full text, mbox, reply):

Version: 122-3devuan3

Source package policykit-1 (122-3devuan3) added to Devuan suite daedalus-proposed-updates.

This closes bug report 911.

Thanks

DAK managing the Devuan archive

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Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2025 14:45:03 +0100
Source: policykit-1
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Version: 122-3devuan3
Distribution: daedalus-proposed-updates
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Devuan Dev Team <devuan-dev@lists.dyne.org>
Changed-By: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>
Closes: 911
Changes:
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 .
   * d/rules: backport Plasma's libpolkit-gobject-consolekit-1-0 fix from #911.
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