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Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Control: affects -1 + src:xfce4
User: [email protected]
Usertags: unblock

Please unblock package xfce4

In #1090384 it was requested that the Xfce desktop environment ship with
a working polkit agent. While it's a bit (!) late in the release cycle,
we finally uploaded a new version of the xfce4 metapackage bringing the mate-polkit as a Recommends.

So this bug is to request to unblock that package and let it migrate to
trixie.

[ Reason ]
Make sure a working polkit agent is present on Xfce installs and it can
handle the permissions request for privilege escalation (installing
packages through Synaptics etc.)

[ Impact ]
No polkit agent installed and running under Xfce session means the user
will get permission refusals for administrative actions.

[ Tests ]
None really relevant.

[ Risks ]
It's a apparently a key package. One impact I can see is to raise a
little the installed size of an Xfce environnement. That might be
relevant for the Xfce installation media (besides mate-polkit it'll also
bring accountsservice).

[ Checklist ]
[X] all changes are documented in the d/changelog
[X] I reviewed all changes and I approve them
[X] attach debdiff against the package in testing


unblock xfce4/4.20.1

diff -Nru xfce4-4.20/debian/changelog xfce4-4.20.1/debian/changelog
--- xfce4-4.20/debian/changelog 2024-12-18 21:23:00.000000000 +0100
+++ xfce4-4.20.1/debian/changelog 2025-07-19 18:32:45.000000000 +0200
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+xfce4 (4.20.1) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+ * d/control: update standards version to 4.7.2
+ * d/control: recommends mate-polkit (Closes: #1090384)
+
+ -- Yves-Alexis Perez <[email protected]> Sat, 19 Jul 2025 18:32:45 +0200
+
xfce4 (4.20) unstable; urgency=medium

* d/control: update dependencies for Xfce 4.20
diff -Nru xfce4-4.20/debian/control xfce4-4.20.1/debian/control
--- xfce4-4.20/debian/control 2024-12-18 21:23:00.000000000 +0100
+++ xfce4-4.20.1/debian/control 2025-07-19 18:32:45.000000000 +0200
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
Maintainer: Debian Xfce Maintainers <[email protected]>
Uploaders: Yves-Alexis Perez <[email protected]>
Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13)
-Standards-Version: 4.6.2
+Standards-Version: 4.7.2
Homepage: https://www.xfce.org/
Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/xfce-team/desktop/xfce4.git
Vcs