policykit-1 - Debian Package Tracker

general

source: policykit-1 (main)
version: 127-2
maintainer: Utopia Maintenance Team (archive) (DMD)
uploaders: Martin Pitt [DMD] – Michael Biebl [DMD] – Simon McVittie [DMD] – Luca Boccassi [DMD]
arch: all any
std-ver: 4.7.3
VCS: Git (Browse, QA)

versions [more versions can be listed by madison] [old versions available from snapshot.debian.org]

[pool directory]

o-o-stable: 0.105-31+deb11u1
o-o-sec: 0.105-31+deb11u1
oldstable: 122-3
stable: 126-2
testing: 127-2
unstable: 127-2

versioned links

0.105-31+deb11u1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
122-3: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
126-2: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
127-2: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]

binaries

gir1.2-polkit-1.0
libpolkit-agent-1-0
libpolkit-agent-1-dev
libpolkit-gobject-1-0
libpolkit-gobject-1-dev
pkexec (2 bugs: 0, 2, 0, 0)
policykit-1-doc
polkitd (3 bugs: 0, 3, 0, 0)

action needed

Depends on packages which need a new maintainer normal

The packages that policykit-1 depends on which need a new maintainer are:

xml-core (#660687)
- Depends: xml-core
- Build-Depends: xml-core
docbook-xsl (#802370)
- Build-Depends: docbook-xsl

Created: 2022-10-13 Last update: 2026-02-24 15:00

version in VCS is newer than in repository, is it time to upload? normal

vcswatch reports that this package seems to have a new changelog entry (version 127-3, distribution UNRELEASED) and new commits in its VCS. You should consider whether it's time to make an upload.

Here are the relevant commit messages:

commit f0b27b37d71a30455e55a66f84d506e949225e52
Author: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue Feb 10 13:29:03 2026 +0000

    Add build dependency on docbook-xml
    
    [10/105] /usr/bin/xsltproc --output docs/man/polkitd.8 --nonet --stringparam man.base.url.for.relative.links /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/polkit-1/ http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl ../docs/man/polkitd.xml
    ../docs/man/polkitd.xml:5: I/O error : failed to load "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd": Attempt to load network entity
    ]>
      ^
    ../docs/man/polkitd.xml:5: warning: failed to load external entity "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd"
    ]>
      ^

commit 01a4344d90ad27b5ec346959bb3ce23ea6b84f5b
Author: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
Date:   Mon Feb 9 16:01:12 2026 +0000

    Re-word previous changelog entry, fixing an incorrect wrong bug number
    
    #1125142 was an unrelated bug, we meant #1125141.

Created: 2026-01-17 Last update: 2026-02-23 14:03

lintian reports 2 warnings normal

Lintian reports 2 warnings about this package. You should make the package lintian clean getting rid of them.

Created: 2025-01-14 Last update: 2025-01-14 06:01

Issues found with some translations low

Automatic checks made by the Debian l10n team found some issues with the translations contained in this package. You should check the l10n status report for more information.

Issues can be things such as missing translations, problematic translated strings, outdated PO files, unknown languages, etc.

Created: 2026-02-10 Last update: 2026-02-10 14:00

No known security issue in bookworm wishlist

There is 1 open security issue in bookworm.

1 ignored issue:

CVE-2016-2568: pkexec, when used with --user nonpriv, allows local users to escape to the parent session via a crafted TIOCSTI ioctl call, which pushes characters to the terminal's input buffer.

Created: 2023-06-10 Last update: 2026-02-18 05:00

news

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[2026-02-18] policykit-1 127-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2026-02-09] Accepted policykit-1 127-2 (source) into unstable (Luca Boccassi)
[2025-12-20] policykit-1 127-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-12-17] Accepted policykit-1 127-1 (source) into unstable (Luca Boccassi)
[2025-01-20] policykit-1 126-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-01-17] Accepted policykit-1 126-2 (source) into unstable (Michael Biebl)
[2025-01-16] policykit-1 126-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-01-13] Accepted policykit-1 126-1 (source) into unstable (Luca Boccassi)
[2024-08-12] policykit-1 125-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-08-08] Accepted policykit-1 125-2 (source) into unstable (Luca Boccassi)
[2024-08-08] Accepted policykit-1 125-1 (source) into unstable (Luca Boccassi)
[2024-07-09] policykit-1 124-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-07-04] Accepted policykit-1 124-3 (source) into unstable (Michael Biebl)
[2024-05-06] policykit-1 124-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-03-16] Accepted policykit-1 124-2 (source) into unstable (Simon McVittie)
[2024-01-23] policykit-1 124-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-01-21] Accepted policykit-1 124-1 (source) into unstable (Luca Boccassi)
[2023-10-24] policykit-1 123-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2023-10-20] Accepted policykit-1 123-3 (source) into unstable (Simon McVittie)
[2023-10-19] Accepted policykit-1 123-2 (source) into unstable (Simon McVittie)
[2023-08-05] policykit-1 123-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2023-08-02] Accepted policykit-1 123-1 (source) into unstable (Simon McVittie)
[2023-06-21] policykit-1 122-4 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2023-06-12] Accepted policykit-1 122-4 (source) into unstable (Simon McVittie)
[2023-02-03] policykit-1 122-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2023-01-31] Accepted policykit-1 122-3 (source) into unstable (Simon McVittie)
[2023-01-23] policykit-1 122-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2023-01-20] Accepted policykit-1 122-2 (source) into unstable (Simon McVittie)
[2022-10-31] policykit-1 122-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2022-10-28] Accepted policykit-1 122-1 (source) into unstable (Simon McVittie)

bugs [bug history graph]

all: 20 22
RC: 0
I&N: 19 21
M&W: 1
F&P: 0
patch: 0

links

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version: 127-2
79 bugs (2 patches)