What to do with potential workflow-changing / breaking changes?

[Fabian Vogt]

Am Sonntag, 26. März 2017, 11:36:05 CEST schrieb Martin Gräßlin:
> Am 2017-03-25 21:34, schrieb Fabian Vogt:
> > Am Samstag, 25. März 2017, 21:28:45 CET schrieb Martin Gräßlin:
> >> Am 2017-03-25 20:42, schrieb Luca Beltrame:
> >> > In data sabato 25 marzo 2017 19:23:04 CET, Martin Gräßlin ha scritto:
> >> >
> >> >> I'm sorry, but I don't find kdesu at all on my system...
> >> >> kdesu kate
> >> >> kdesu: command not found
> >> >
> >> > You need kde-cli-tools installed.
> >> 
> >> apt search kde-cli-tools
> >> Sorting... Done
> >> Full Text Search... Done
> >> kde-cli-tools/xenial,now 4:5.9.4+p16.04+git20170322.0503-0 amd64
> >> [installed,automatic]
> >>    tools to use KDE services from the command line
> >> 
> >> yep, is installed, but kdesu is in libexec, which is not in $PATH.
> >> No idea how other distros handle it, but for the debian-based world we
> >> can assume that no user knows this software exists.
> > 
> > It's used through xdg-su in that case, which is a desktop-agnostic 
> > wrapper.
> 
> Just searched for this in both Debian and Ubuntu and there is no result 
> for xdg-su. There is also no mentioning of xdg-su on 
> cgit.freedesktop.org.
> 
> All I could find is mentioning on github with (verbatim quote): "The 
> xdg-su script is an unmaintained part of xdg-utils package".
> 
> Based on that I looked into xdg-utils on cgit.freedesktop.org and well 
> it exists but doesn't get installed.
> 
> Sorry, but I don't think we need to support this tool. An unreleased 3rd 
> party tool poking into internals of our software - really, we don't need 
> to support that.

Indeed, I was not aware that xdg-su practically does not exist anymore
outside of *SUSE. In that case that issue is not that severe.

Cheers,
Fabian

> 
> Cheers
> Martin