Ubuntu doesn't use su-to-root, should use gksu

Bug #533027 reported by Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
luckybackup (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Andrew Starr-Bochicchio

Bug Description

Binary package hint: luckybackup

Upstream dev sent the following to the MOTU list:

I am the developer of luckybackup
(http://luckybackup.sourceforge.net/index.html) which you have included in the
universe repo (http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/luckybackup) and I thank you
for that :)

The application uses 2 .desktop files.
One of them is for super-user execution.
Since your package is a "copy" (I do not mean it in a bad way, please do not
missunderstand this) from the Debian repo, there seems to be a problem with
it.

Could you please do your magic tricks and patch the file:
menu/luckybackup-gnome-su.desktop
so that the following line:
Exec=su-to-root -X -c /usr/bin/luckybackup
becomes
Exec=gksu /usr/bin/luckybackup

Changed in luckybackup (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (andrewsomething)
status: New → In Progress
importance: Undecided → Low
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package luckybackup - 0.3.5-1ubuntu1

---------------
luckybackup (0.3.5-1ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/05-ubuntu-gksu.diff:
   - Use gksu to launch in superuser mode as Ubuntu
     doesn't use su-to-root. (LP: #533027)
 -- Andrew Starr-Bochicchio <email address hidden> Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:59:25 -0500

Changed in luckybackup (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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