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    Add required polkit action file (#776437) · f35e734a
    Mike Fleetwood authored and Curtis Gedak's avatar Curtis Gedak committed
    An action file is always needed with polkit to describe the privileged
    actions that are available to the subject (client program).  For GParted
    the only available action is to run the gparted shell script as root.
    
    Note that the polkit action file will be installed into location
    $(prefix)/share/polkit-1/actions.  This is required by the GNU Coding
    Standards [1] and to prevent 'make distcheck' from failing [2].  However
    polkit only uses /usr/share/polkit-1/actions for it's action files [3].
    This dilemma was discussed in this Bugzilla bug 776437 and on the
    general Automake discussion email list [4].  The solution is to simply
    document in the README file that a manual additional installation step
    may be required.
    
    The action file is marked as translatable with the underscore (_) of the
    _description and _message tags identifying the string to be translated.
    
    Use of INTLTOOL_POLICY_RULE in Makefile.am to merge translations into
    the polkit action file necessitates incre...
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