xfce-polkit

[Peter Blackman]

Hi Andre,

On 19/07/2025 12:15, andre at andreldm.com wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> As far I as remember, the author never approached us to promote xfce- 
> polkit to an official project,

Thanks for clarifying


  that would mean a bit more of commitment
> to maintain the project, probably more distros would use it for their 
> Xfce sessions, meaning more issue reports, etc.

It would also mean more resources to address any issues.


> If I were to guess, the author isn't interested in more work and that's 
> totally understandable. From our side, apparently no one is willing to 
> adopt the project either. All in all, there is no technical issue, just 
> a maintainer preference (to keep it unofficial).

Would it be possible to consider its adoption?
I have packaged it for Debian
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/xfce-polkit
but concern has been raised that its not an official package [upstream].


I did a mini survey of what other distros are doing, and came with

Arch        polkit-gnome
Fedora      xfce-polkit
Mageia      mate-polkit
Mandriva    xfce-polkit
SuSE        polkit-gnome

Seems a mixed bag!
Adoption would provide more consistency for the users.


Cheers,
Peter