[ubuntu-dev] Bug#827001: gdebi: Gdebi closes then reopens when clicking install

[nickpontillo]

Package: gdebi
Version: 0.9.5.7
Severity: minor

Dear Maintainer,

When I click to install something in Gdebi, it asks for root password as it
should and then closes and reopens (presumably it was my user's process, and
then reopens as a root process). This is visually jarring and it would be
better if, for example, it asked for root password *when the application is
started* so it wouldn't have to close and reopen as root.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages gdebi depends on:
ii  gdebi-core        0.9.5.7
ii  gir1.2-gtk-3.0    3.20.6-1
ii  gir1.2-vte-2.91   0.44.2-1
ii  gksu              2.0.2-9
ii  gnome-icon-theme  3.12.0-2
ii  python3-gi        3.20.1-1
pn  python3:any       <none>

Versions of packages gdebi recommends:
ii  libgtk2-perl      2:1.2498-1
ii  lintian           2.5.44
ii  shared-mime-info  1.6-1

gdebi suggests no packages.

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