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

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Package: libpolkit-gobject-consolekit-1-0; Maintainer for libpolkit-gobject-consolekit-1-0 is Devuan Dev Team <devuan-dev@lists.dyne.org>; Source for libpolkit-gobject-consolekit-1-0 is src:policykit-1.

Reported by: "Plasma (David Paul)" <davidpaul@librem.one>

Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2025 01:00:01 UTC

Severity: grave

Tags: patch

Found in version 0.105-26+devuan1

Fixed in version 126-2devuan2

Done: dak@devuan.org

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Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2025 15:21:38 +0100
From: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>
To: "Plasma (David Paul)" <davidpaul@librem.one>
Cc: 911@bugs.devuan.org
Subject: Re: [devuan-dev] bug#911: [PATCH] libpolkit-gobject-consolekit-1-0:
 #911
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 <20250926201326.617e47bd@Zombmetheus.egg>
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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

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