polkit changes in F19 and rawhide

[Miloslav Trmač <mitr@xxxxxxxx>]

Summary: You shouldn't have to do anything.

If you are interested, read on...

The following changes to polkit packaging have landed in rawhide, and will very likely appear in F19 as well (testing and karma on [1] welcome):

* The _javascript_ engine is now mandatory, to ensure polkit's decisions are always consistent.

  The separate polkit-js-engine package has been removed; the main package provides the "polkit-js-engine" name to ensure a smooth transition.

* Compatibility with the previous format of authorization rules (*.pkla, and *.conf for defining administrator users) is now provided by a polkit-pkla-compat package[2].

  polkit-pkla-compat is also mandatory (required by polkit) to ensure polkit's decisions are always consistent.

  Your packages can thus use either _javascript_ *.rules or ini-style *.pkla.  The two differ only in the ordering semantics (which you hopefully don't need to care about).

  In most cases it's easiest to use whatever format is shipped by upstream; if you have already migrated your package to *.rules, feel free to continue using it.

  (If you are also an upstream maintainer, note that polkit-pkla-compat is a separate package and it is not currently available in any other Linux distribution.)

    Mirek

[1] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/polkit-0.110-4.fc19,polkit-pkla-compat-0.1-2.fc19
[2] https://fedorahosted.org/polkit-pkla-compat/

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