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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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