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Curtis Gedak 1bd0fa656e Append -git to version for continuing development 2021-05-03 09:18:26 -06:00
Curtis Gedak 9523b54cd9 ========== gparted-1.3.0 ========== 2021-05-03 09:02:58 -06:00
Curtis Gedak 4665e3a125 Append -git to version for continuing development 2021-01-25 10:32:31 -07:00
Curtis Gedak 23b27dfc35 ========== gparted-1.2.0 ========== 2021-01-25 10:14:25 -07:00
Curtis Gedak d653fe6173 Append -git to version for continuing development
Also fix minor whitespace mistake in NEWS
2020-01-20 10:33:47 -07:00
Curtis Gedak 8a15021168 ========== gparted-1.1.0 ========== 2020-01-20 10:15:32 -07:00
Curtis Gedak e04b928423 Append -git to version for continuing development 2019-05-29 10:21:07 -06:00
Curtis Gedak b5f1d5d5fe ========== gparted-1.0.0 ========== 2019-05-29 09:54:20 -06:00
Luca Bacci 12f08d38b8 Set the xalign property for Gtk::Labels (!40)
With the same case as from the previous commit, the very long "Mounted
on ..." text is now wrapped, but the text may not be left justified.
Slowly adjust the dialog width and see how the text wrapping is updated
to fit the size adjustment but the text is centred rather than left
justified.

This is because setting the halign property to Gtk::ALIGN_START does not
guarantee left alignment of text for wrapped or ellipsized Gtk::Labels.

Use the xalign property instead.

To set the xalign property there is a method in the GtkMisc (Gtk::Misc)
base class:

  gtk_misc_set_alignment (Gtk::Misc::set_alignment)

However, GtkMisc (Gtk::Misc) was deprecated in Gtk 3.14 (Gtkmm 3.14)
and in Gtk 3.16 (gtkmm 3.16) set_alignment() was replaced with the
introduction of two new methods:

  gtk_label_set_xalign (Gtk::Label::set_xalign)
  gtk_label_set_yalign (Gtk::Label::set_yalign)

Add a check for Gtkmm method Gtk::Label::set_xalign() in configure.ac
and use it when available.

References:

[1] Gtk3 Reference Documentation - gtk_misc_set_alignment()
    https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkMisc.html#gtk-misc-set-alignment
    "gtk_misc_set_alignment has been deprecated since version 3.14 and
    should not be used in newly-written code. Use GtkWidget's alignment
    ("halign" and "valign") and margin properties or GtkLabel's
    "xalign" and "yalign" properties."

[2] Gtkmm 3.16 Gtk::Misc Class Reference, set_alignment() method
    https://developer.gnome.org/gtkmm/3.16/classGtk_1_1Misc.html#a52b2675874cf46a3097938756b9fe9e8

[3] GNOME BugZilla - EmptyBoxes: instructions_label's alignment is off
    https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735841

[4] Gtk commit from 2014-09-16:
    GtkLabel: add x/yalign properties
    https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/commit/d39424fc

[5] Gtk3 Reference Documentation - gtk_label_set_xalign()
    https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkLabel.html#gtk-label-set-xalign

[6] Gtkmm 3.16 Gtk::Label Class Reference, set_xalign() method
    https://developer.gnome.org/gtkmm/3.16/classGtk_1_1Label.html#acee7d4e87d7cc14080a7b8ded5f84e5e

Closes !40 - Limit wrapping labels
2019-05-15 16:11:21 +01:00
Luca Bacci eeffd50531 Request natural width in Gtk::ScrolledWindows for Gtk >= 3.22 (!39)
Before Gtk 3.22 GtkScrolledWindow propagated natural size to its
Children and so on to descendants.  In Gtk 3.22 this was changed to
always request the minimum size.  This was done because it is believed
to be a safer default (gives a better behaviour) in case of dynamic
content inside the scrolled window, that is, content that may change
allocated size. [1][2][3]

When the scrolled window content is not dynamic the natural size is
preferable because it gives a better looking layout and without any
downside.

In the case of GParted content which is not dynamic, so request the
scrolled windows to allocate children at natural sizes for Gtk >= 3.22.

The benefits of natural size allocation are evident in presence of
wrapping labels (for example inside the "Partition Info" dialog), that
with the minimum size request likely end up taking a very small width.

References:

[1] Gtk commit from 2016-08-31:
    GtkScrolledWindow: Make propagation of natural child sizes optional
    0984d1622d
    "Making propagation of child natural sizes mandatory (or default,
    even) was evidently a mistake as this causes dynamic content in a
    scrolled window to resize it's parent when the scrolled window is
    competing for space with an adjacent widget."

[2] Gtk 3.22 Reference Documentation -
    gtk_scrolled_window_set_propagate_natural_width
    https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/3.22/GtkScrolledWindow.html#gtk-scrolled-window-set-propagate-natural-width

[3] Gtkmm 3.24 Gtk::ScrolledWindow Class Reference,
    set_propagate_natural_width() method
    https://developer.gnome.org/gtkmm/3.24/classGtk_1_1ScrolledWindow.html#a2d4cb945688ecb8739efd70b18742779

[4] Gtkmm 3.21.6 NEWS
    https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtkmm/blob/3.21.6/NEWS
    "ScrolledWindow: Added get/set_propagate_natural_height/width() and
    the properties."

Closes !39 - Always request natural size inside Gtk::ScrolledWindow
2019-05-13 20:12:12 +00:00
Mike Fleetwood d1441ce6a9 Drop compose subdir (#46)
It's no longer used so drop it.

Closes #46 - Drop compose subdir
2019-03-27 16:45:22 +00:00
Mike Fleetwood a725921a22 Add use of new GNOME 3 yelp-tools documentation infrastructure (!24)
Second part is to use yelp-tools to build and install the documentation.
Have to rename the help Manual from help/C/gparted.xml to
help/C/index.docbook in accordance with this note from the GNOME Goal:
Port to New Documentation Infrastructure [1]:
    IMPORTANT: If this is for a DocBook document, the top-level DocBook
    file MUST be renamed to index.docbook.  Do a "git mv" and include
    index.docbook in HELP_FILES.

Commits from gucharmap [4] and totem [5], projects which have DocBook
documentation, making this same change are also useful references.

[1] GNOME Goal: Port To New Documentation Infrastructure
    https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/GnomeGoals/NewDocumentationInfrastructure

[2] Yelp > Yelp Tools > yelp.m4
    http://yelp.io/tools/yelp.m4.html

[3] GNOME application developement overview / User help / Set up your
    build system
    https://developer.gnome.org/platform-overview/stable/dev-help-build.html.en

[4] gucharmap commit "Port to new documentation infrastructure"
    3e1526c056

[5] totem commit "Use new documentation infrastructure"
    59a6bd6064

Closes !24 - Port to GNOME 3 yelp-tools documentation infrastructure
2019-03-01 16:46:56 +00:00
Mike Fleetwood e62b352eed Remove use of GNOME 2 gnome-doc-utils documentation infrastructure (!24)
Details of old GNOME 2 gnome-doc-utils:
    Migrating your documentation to gnome-doc-utils
    https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeDocUtils/MigrationHowTo

First part is to stop using gnome-doc-utils to build and install the
documentation.  Also since updating the OMF catalog was only needed for
GNOME 2 yelp, use of scrollkeeper is completely removed too.

Closes !24 - Port to GNOME 3 yelp-tools documentation infrastructure
2019-03-01 16:46:56 +00:00
Mike Fleetwood 4fcd182992 Remove left behind configuration summary lines (!22)
These lines in the final configuration report from ./configure were left
behind [1] when determination of the underlying definitions were remove.
So they no longer report 'yes' or 'no' like the other lines in the file
configuration report.

       Need partition table re-read workaround?  :
     Supports large sector sizes (> 512 bytes)?  :

Remove them now.

[1] 8df975c7d1
    Increase minimum required libparted to 2.2 (!22)

Closes !22 - Increase minimums to libparted 2.2 and glibmm 2.32
2019-02-20 16:15:17 +00:00
Luca Bacci 2953778a4c port-to-gtk3: Use Gdk::AppLaunchContext to launch yelp (#7)
gdk_spawn_command_line_on_screen() is not present in Gtk3.  The
documentation from Gtkmm 2.24 states [1]:

    gdk_spawn_command_line_on_screen has been deprecated since version
    2.24 and should not be used in newly-written code.  This function is
    being removed in 3.0.  Use either g_spawn_command_line_sync(),
    g_spawn_command_line_async() or GdkAppLaunchContext instead.

g_spawn_command_line_sync() and g_spawn_command_line_async() are screen
/ display agnostic, as such we would loose functionality.  There is a
workaround, which involves setting the DISPLAY environment variable [2],
but it's a weak solution (and I don't know if it works on backends
other than X11).

GdkAppLaunchContext is an implementation of GIO's GAppLaunchContext that
handles launching an application in a graphical context [3].  Therefore
use GdkAppLaunchContext and GIO's GAppInfo.

GdkAppLaunchContext was introduced in Gtk2 version 2.14.  The C++
wrapper Gdk::AppLaunchContext was introduced only in Gtkmm3 version 3.4
[4].  Bump the minimum required version of Gtkmm to 3.4.0 for this
requirement.

GAppInfo was introduced in GLib version 2.16.  The C++ wrapper
Gio::AppInfo was introduced in Giomm version 2.16.  Note that the
minimum required version for glibmm is already 2.32.

[1] GDK 2 Reference Manual, GdkScreen, gdk_spawn_on_screen()
    https://developer.gnome.org/gdk2/2.24/GdkScreen.html#gdk-spawn-on-screen

[2] Migrating from GTK+ 2.x to GTK+ 3 - "Use GIO for launching applications"
    https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/gtk-migrating-2-to-3.html#id-1.6.3.3.7

[3] GDK 3 Reference Manual - "Application launching"
    https://developer.gnome.org/gdk3/stable/gdk3-Application-launching.html

[4] Gtkmm 3.4 Gdk::AppLaunchContext Class Reference, Detailed Description
    https://developer.gnome.org/gtkmm/3.4/classGdk_1_1AppLaunchContext.html#details

Closes #7 - Port to Gtk3
2019-02-11 08:57:18 +00:00
Luca Bacci cc0740148e port-to-gtk3: Switch to Gtkmm3 (#7)
Switch to Gtkmm3 in configure.ac.  Require version 3.0.0.

Also update the build instructions in README and the package list in
.gitlab-ci.yml.

Starting from version 3.18.0 Gtkmm requires C++11 compilation [1][2][3].
Add a check for Gtkmm >= 3.18.0 in configure.ac and enable C++11
compilation accordingly.

References:

[1] Gtkmm 3.18.1 NEWS
    "Changes in 3.18 ... Use, and require C++11, ..."
    https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtkmm/blob/3.18.1/NEWS#L35

[2] Murray's Blog - "gtkmm now uses C++11"
    https://www.murrayc.com/permalink/2015/07/31/gtkmm-now-uses-c11

[3] Murray's Blog - "gtkmm 3.18 and glibmm 2.46"
    https://www.murrayc.com/permalink/2015/09/25/gtkmm-3-18-and-glibmm-2-46

Closes #7 - Port to Gtk3
2019-02-11 08:57:18 +00:00
Mike Fleetwood 80d6394684 Remove deprecated Glib::thread_init() (!22)
Use of Glib::thread_init() was deprecated in glibmm 2.32 [1].  The
oldest supported distributions have these versions:
    Debian 8           glibmm 2.42.0
    RHEL / CentOS 7    glibmm 2.56.0
    SLES 12            glibmm 2.38.1
    Ubuntu 14.04 LTS   glibmm 2.39.93

Checking further the glibmm 2.32 reference manual says this about
Glib::thread_init() [2]:
    Initializes the GLib thread system.

    Deprecated:
    Calling thread_init() is no longer necessary and no longer has any
    effect.

However only some of the glibmm example programs had Glib::thread_init()
removed, others had it replaced by Glib::init() [3].  Again the glibmm
2.32 reference manual says this about Glib::init() [4]:
    Initialize glibmm.

    You may call this more than once.  You do not need to call this if
    you are using Glib::MainLoop or Gtk::Main, because they call it for
    you.

GParted does call Gtk::Main and test_PipeCapture does call
Glib::MainLoop.  Therefore just raise the minimum version to glibmm 2.32
and remove both calls to Glib::thread_init().

[1] Glibmm 2.32 NEWS file
    https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glibmm/blob/2.32.0/NEWS#L207

[2] glibmm 2.32, glibmm: Glib Namespace Reference, Glib::thread_init()
    https://developer.gnome.org/glibmm/2.32/namespaceGlib.html#ab26d01c776801f1fff00753e97af4fc7

[3] glibmm commit "Avoid use of deprecates API in tests and examples."
    3e0fbb22c0

[4] glibmm 2.32, glibmm: Glib Namespace Reference, Glib::init()
    https://developer.gnome.org/glibmm/2.32/namespaceGlib.html#ac90aee10d0b90e3d8a96a86b5394f87b

Closes !22 - Increase minimums to libparted 2.2 and glibmm 2.32
2019-01-21 16:41:31 +00:00
Mike Fleetwood 8df975c7d1 Increase minimum required libparted to 2.2 (!22)
Raise the minimum required version of GNU Parted from 1.7.1 to 2.2,
released 2010-02-16 [1][2].  The oldest supported distributions, also
with gtkmm >= 2.24, since commit [3], are:
    Debian 8           parted 3.2
    RHEL / CentOS 7    parted 3.1
    SLES 12            parted 3.1
    Ubuntu 14.04 LTS   parted 2.3

Raising the minimum required version allows removal of optional code
associated with these definitions:
*   USE_LIBPARTED_LARGE_SECTOR_SUPPORT
    Fallback code reporting ignored device with logical sector size
    other than 512 bytes.
*   ENABLE_PT_REREAD_WORKAROUND
    Fallback code re-attempting to inform the kernel of partition
    changes.

[1] GNU Parted 2.2 release announcement
    http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2010-02/msg00016.html

[2] NEWS file from GNU Parted 2.2
    http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/parted.git/tree/NEWS?h=v2.2

[3] 8b42bab1ee
    modern-gtk2: Require Gtkmm version 2.24 (!17)

Closes !22 - Increase minimums to libparted 2.2 and glibmm 2.32
2019-01-21 16:41:31 +00:00
Curtis Gedak 636694b22e Append -git to version for continuing development 2018-12-13 10:32:46 -07:00
Curtis Gedak 60aa51119f ========== gparted-0.33.0 ========== 2018-12-13 10:16:44 -07:00
Luca Bacci c0aa3dbfdf modern-gtk2: Always use Gtk::MessageDialog::get_message_area() (!17)
Remove check for Gtk::Messagedialog::get_message_area() and associated
fallback code as it is always available from gtkmm 2.22.

Reference:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtkmm/blob/2.22.0/NEWS#L25

Closes !17 - Gtk2 modernisation
2018-11-12 21:50:42 +00:00
Luca Bacci 8b42bab1ee modern-gtk2: Require Gtkmm version 2.24 (!17)
Require the latest minor version of gtkmm2, released back in 2011 [1].
This is the first step in porting to Gtk3 [2].  This drops GParted
support for very old but still supported distributions:
    Distribution      EOL        Gtkmm
    RHEL / CentOS 6   2020-Nov   2.18.2
    SLES 11           2022-Mar   2.14.1

References:
[1] ANNOUNCE: gtkmm 2.24.0
    https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtkmm-list/2011-February/msg00038.html
[2] Migrating from GTK+ 2.x to GTK+ 3 / Preparation in GTK+ 2.x
    https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/gtk-migrating-2-to-3.html#id-1.6.3.3

Closes !17 - Gtk2 modernisation
2018-11-12 21:50:42 +00:00
Curtis Gedak 8bc599d054 Update bug links from Bugzilla to GitLab issues (!11)
- Bugzilla has disabled reporting of new bugs.
- Existing Bugzilla bug reports permit new comments only.
- New bugs are to be created on GitLab issues.

Reference:
[GitLab] IMPORTANT: Mass migration plan
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2018-March/msg00023.html

Closes !11 - Update bugzilla references
2018-08-24 09:54:12 +01:00
Curtis Gedak 9abc477cad Append -git to version for continuing development 2018-08-22 10:09:08 -06:00
Curtis Gedak 6bece0b3d7 ========== gparted-0.32.0 ========== 2018-08-22 09:46:04 -06:00
Mike Fleetwood fc215d0c2e Increase minimum required gtkmm to 2.16.0 (#794253)
Increase the minimum required version of gtkmm to 2.16.0, thus allowing
removal of HAVE_GTK_SHOW_URI autoconf definition and associated fallback
code.

Bug 794253 - Desupport RHEL / CentOS 5 and raise minimum required
             versions to glibmm 2.14.0 and gtkmm 2.16.0
2018-03-26 10:16:45 -06:00
Mike Fleetwood 0ab2adb67f Increase minimum required gtkmm to 2.11.1 (#794253)
Increase the minimum required version of gtkmm to 2.11.1, thus allowing
removal of:
 *  HAVE_SET_DEFAULT_ICON_NAME autoconf definition and associated
    optional code.
 *  INSTALL_PIXMAPS_DIR automake conditional and associated make
    instructions.

This is reversing these 3 commits, except for the higher minimum gtkmm
version:
 1) a042107883
    Only use Gtk::Window::set_default_icon_name method when available (#695279)
 2) b09d6035cd
    Add fallback method for specifying GParted icon (#695279)
 3) d6baac2546
    Only install fallback icon when required (#695279)

Bug 794253 - Desupport RHEL / CentOS 5 and raise minimum required
             versions to glibmm 2.14.0 and gtkmm 2.16.0
2018-03-26 10:16:45 -06:00
Mike Fleetwood 07f58ed82b Raise minimum required glibmm version to 2.14.0 (#794253)
Increase the minimum required version of glibmm to 2.14.0, thus allowing
removal of the HAVE_GLIB_REGEX autoconf definition and associated
conditional code.  This is reversing commit, except for the new glibmm
minimum check:

    456932846b
    Implement fallback if Glib::Regex class is missing (#695279)

Bug 794253 - Desupport RHEL / CentOS 5 and raise minimum required
             versions to glibmm 2.14.0 and gtkmm 2.16.0
2018-03-26 10:16:45 -06:00
Curtis Gedak 295c649ace Append -git to version for continuing development 2018-03-19 10:29:11 -06:00
Curtis Gedak 62cd4a5d92 ========== gparted-0.31.0 ========== 2018-03-19 10:08:53 -06:00
Curtis Gedak 0eb9f1fcfb Reduce dependency on scrollkeeper (#743318)
Scrollkeeper and the associated OMF catalog files are used by the
GNOME 2 version of yelp to display the GParted help manual.  To see how
this works try the following command:

  yelp ghelp:gparted

GNOME version 3 and higher yelp do not require scrollkeeper or the OMF
catalog files to properly display the GParted help manual.  And in fact
GNOME 3 deprecated the GNOME 2 method of building and installing GNOME
help documents altogether; including use of GNOME_DOC_INIT autoconf
macro, the gnome-doc-utils package and use of scrollkeeper.

  [GNOME 3] GNOME Goal: Port To New Documentation Infrastructure
  https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/GnomeGoals/NewDocumentationInfrastructure

Further, the next release of Debian, Debian 10 (Buster), will be
removing the scrollkeeper / rarian package.

  rarian: Don't release with Buster
  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=885657

GParted is still a GNOME 2 app using GNOME 2 documentation build system
using autoconf GNOME_DOC_INIT macro.

  [GNOME 2] Migrating your documentation to gnome-doc-utils
  https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeDocUtils/MigrationHowTo

This is needed to build GParted documentation on still supported GNOME 2
distributions RHEL / CentOS 6.  So avoid requiring deprecated
scrollkeeper on GNOME 3 by automatically disabling scrollkeeper database
updates when the scrollkeeper-update command is not available.

  Executable          | Configure option used  | Use scrollkeeper
  scrollkeeper-update | on command line        | when building help
  exists?             |                        | for GParted?
  --------------------+------------------------+-------------------
  Yes                 | <none>                 | Yes
  Yes                 | --enable-scrollkeeper  | Yes
  Yes                 | --disable-scrollkeeper | No
                      |                        |
  No                  | <any>                  | No

Note that because GParted is still using the GNOME 2 documentation build
system it still builds and installs OMF files.  It is just that they are
not required with GNOME 3 yelp and this commit automatically disables
updating the scrollkeeper database when the scrollkeeper-update command
is not available.

Bug 743318 - configure script missing check for scrollkeeper dependency
2018-02-08 21:58:51 +00:00
Curtis Gedak 6045e5a147 Append -git to version for continuing development 2017-10-10 10:43:13 -06:00
Curtis Gedak 1db4c5ae83 ========== gparted-0.30.0 ========== 2017-10-10 10:20:25 -06:00
Mike Fleetwood f38ccd0284 Only when configured, grant root access to the X11 display (#776437)
GParted fails to display when run under Wayland [1][2][3].  This is
because by intentional design Wayland doesn't allow applications with
root privileges access to the display [4].

As an interim workaround make the gparted shell wrapper use xhost to
grant root access to the X11 server if root doesn't already have access,
but only when configured.  Granting root access must be explicitly
enabled when building GParted like this:
    ./configure --enable-xhost-root
It defaults to disabled.  When gpartedbin binary ends the shell wrapper
revokes root access only if it granted such access.

[1] GNOME Bug 776437 - GParted fails to run as root under Wayland
    https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=776437

[2] Ubuntu Bug 1652282 - GParted does not work in GNOME on Wayland
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gparted/+bug/1652282

[3] Fedora Bug 1397103 - gparted not working under Wayland
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1397103

[4] Common Fedora 25 bugs
    Running graphical apps with root privileges (e.g. gparted) does not
    work on Wayland
    https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F25_bugs#wayland-root-apps

Bug 776437 - GParted fails to run as root under Wayland
2017-09-01 10:14:20 -06:00
Mike Fleetwood 6f521c4d98 Remove unnecessary autoconf check for pkexec --disable-internal-agent option (#776437)
The pkexec --disable-internal-agent option was introduced by this commit
[1] in polkit 0.98 [2] which is before the minimum 0.102 version needed
to run X11 apps.  Therefore the option will always be available.  Remove
the unnecessary check.

[1] https://cgit.freedesktop.org/polkit/commit/?id=f071d4561dfe8dd9cfd4e29fddec7bc82fd658aa
    pkexec: add --disable-internal-agent option

[2] https://cgit.freedesktop.org/polkit/tree/NEWS?id=0.98#n25
    polkit NEWS entry for 0.98

Bug 776437 - GParted fails to run as root under Wayland
2017-09-01 10:14:20 -06:00
Mike Fleetwood 11c251293e Check for pkexec >= 0.102 which supports execution of X11 apps (#776437)
On CentOS 6 with polkit version 0.96 pkexec fails to execute gparted
shell wrapper as root like this:

    $ env | grep DISPLAY
    DISPLAY=:0.0
    $ sh -x /usr/local/bin/gparted
    ...
    + pkexec /usr/local/bin/gparted
    (gpartedbin:8011): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

This is because polkit didn't support setting the DISPLAY environment
variable to allow execution of X11 applications until the introduction
of the allow_gui annotation by this commit in polkit 0.102:

    https://cgit.freedesktop.org/polkit/commit/?id=7850d27017fed1834268a852350ae85381fbb110
    Bug 38769 - pkexec: Support running X11 apps

Make configure only use pkexec version 0.102 or higher as the privilege
escalation program.  Otherwise configure falls back to checking for the
other privilege escalation programs as it did before.

Bug 776437 - GParted fails to run as root under Wayland
2017-09-01 10:14:20 -06:00
Mike Fleetwood 2f559ec3b5 Only install polkit action file when pkexec is used (#776437)
Only install the GParted polkit action file when pkexec is being used as
the root privilege escalation program.

Bug 776437 - GParted fails to run as root under Wayland
2017-09-01 10:14:20 -06:00
Mike Fleetwood f35e734a0c Add required polkit action file (#776437)
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 increasing the minimum version of
intltool to 0.36.0 where it was first introduced in intltool.m4.  This
will prevent GParted building on RedHat/CentOS 5 which only has intltool
0.35.0.  But that doesn't matter because RedHat/CentOS 5 reached end of
life on 31st March 2017.

[1] GNU Coding Standards, 7.2.5 Variables for Installation Directories
    https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Directory-Variables

[2] Automake Manual, 27.10 Installing to Hard-Coded Locations
    https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#Hard_002dCoded-Install-Paths
    "My package needs to populate the installation directory of another
    package at install-time.  I can easily compute that installation
    directory in configure, but if I install files therein,
    'make distcheck' fails.  How else should I do?"

[3] polkit(8), Declaring Actions
    https://www.freedesktop.org/software/polkit/docs/latest/polkit.8.html#polkit-declaring-actions

    "A mechanism need to declare a set of actions in order to use
    polkit.  Actions correspond to operations that clients can request
    the mechanism to carry out and are defined in XML files that the
    mechanism installs into the /usr/share/polkit-1/actions directory."

[4] Not installing to hard-coded locations vs polkit's fixed location
    http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2017-08/msg00015.html

Bug 776437 - GParted fails to run as root under Wayland
2017-09-01 10:14:20 -06:00
Mike Fleetwood b47528b6f9 Add detection of pkexec root privilege escalation program (#776437)
Many of the distributions (confirmed for Arch Linux, Debian, Fedora,
OpenSUSE, RedHat/CentOS and Ubuntu but likely many others too) are now
using polkit as the mechanism to authorise privileged actions, including
using it to authorise GParted to run as root in their packages of
GParted.  Therefore make the GParted configure script check for the
pkexec command.

Use pkexec with the --disable-internal-agent option when available,
preventing pkexec using it's own textual authentication agent.  When
running GParted from a desktop icon or menu there is no terminal with
which to interact with the textual authentication agent to it can't be
used.  The desktop's graphical agent must be running.  This matches how
some distributions already use polkit in their own packages of GParted.

Required actions file will be added in the next commit.

    polkit(8)
    https://www.freedesktop.org/software/polkit/docs/latest/polkit.8.html

    pkexec(1)
    https://www.freedesktop.org/software/polkit/docs/latest/pkexec.1.html

Bug 776437 - GParted fails to run as root under Wayland
2017-09-01 10:14:20 -06:00
Curtis Gedak c237a37982 Append -git to version for continuing development 2017-08-07 10:18:13 -06:00
Curtis Gedak 5b831647a8 ========== gparted-0.29.0 ========== 2017-08-07 09:59:20 -06:00
Mike Fleetwood f31808989a Silence subdir-objects warning from automake 1.14 (#781978)
Configuring GParted on a machine with automake >= 1.14 produces this
warning:

    $ ./autogen.sh
    ...
    lib/gtest/Makefile.am:58: warning: source file 'src/gtest-all.cc' is in a subdirectory,
    lib/gtest/Makefile.am:58: but option 'subdir-objects' is disabled
    automake: warning: possible forward-incompatibility.
    automake: At least a source file is in a subdirectory, but the 'subdir-objects'
    automake: automake option hasn't been enabled.  For now, the corresponding output
    automake: object file(s) will be placed in the top-level directory.  However,
    automake: this behaviour will change in future Automake versions: they will
    automake: unconditionally cause object files to be placed in the same subdirectory
    automake: of the corresponding sources.
    automake: You are advised to start using 'subdir-objects' option throughout your
    automake: project, to avoid future incompatibilities.
    lib/gtest/Makefile.am:60: warning: source file 'src/gtest_main.cc' is in a subdirectory,
    lib/gtest/Makefile.am:60: but option 'subdir-objects' is disabled
    lib/gtest/Makefile.am: installing './depcomp'
    tests/Makefile.am:22: warning: source file '../src/BlockSpecial.cc' is in a subdirectory,
    tests/Makefile.am:22: but option 'subdir-objects' is disabled
    tests/Makefile.am:23: warning: source file '../src/PipeCapture.cc' is in a subdirectory,
    tests/Makefile.am:23: but option 'subdir-objects' is disabled
    ...

From the automake 1.14 NEWS file:
    http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/automake.git/tree/NEWS?h=v1.14#n125

    "The next major Automake version (2.0) will unconditionally activate
    the 'subdir-objects' option.  In order to smooth out the transition,
    we now give a warning (in the category 'unsupported') whenever a
    source file is present in a subdirectory but the 'subdir-object' is
    not enabled.  For example, the following usage will trigger such a
    warning:

        bin_PROGRAMS = sub/foo
        sub_foo_SOURCES = sub/main.c sub/bar.c
    "

Set the subdir-objects automake option, silencing the warning.

Bug 781978 - Add Google Test C++ test framework
2017-06-22 09:27:01 -06:00
Mike Fleetwood c37be28148 Add unit tests for BlockSpecial constructors and internal caching (#781978)
So far only includes tests of the construction of BlockSpecial objects
and the interaction with the internal cache used to reduce the number of
stat(2) calls.  Tests have been designed to be runable by non-root users
and assume as little as possible about the environment by discovering
used block device names and symbolic link name.

Bug 781978 - Add Google Test C++ test framework
2017-06-02 10:47:30 -06:00
Mike Fleetwood dceb293f15 Add unit test suites with initial successful dummy test (#781978)
Now 'make check' will additionally build and run the test suites in the
./tests directory.  Add initial always successful dummy test suite.
This is done using Automake support for testing.

    Automake Manual, 15 Support for test suites
    https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#Tests

./tests/Makefile.am takes some influence from the same file in the
minimal-gtest-autotools template project.
    654848ec01/tests/Makefile.am

Bug 781978 - Add Google Test C++ test framework
2017-06-02 10:13:16 -06:00
Mike Fleetwood 81b104928b Add building of Google Test libraries (#781978)
This closely follows the minimal-gtest-autotools template project.
    https://github.com/octol/minimal-gtest-autotools

Now 'make check' will additionally build the Google Test C++ test
framework libraries.

Bug 781978 - Add Google Test C++ test framework
2017-06-02 10:13:16 -06:00
Curtis Gedak 883d7cf598 Append -git to version for continuing development 2017-02-17 15:55:27 -07:00
Curtis Gedak 7ac84119c0 ========== gparted-0.28.1 ========== 2017-02-17 15:42:22 -07:00
Curtis Gedak f537b720bb Append -git to version for continuing development 2017-02-14 10:34:04 -07:00
Curtis Gedak 10d3490e18 ========== gparted-0.28.0 ========== 2017-02-14 10:06:45 -07:00
Curtis Gedak 5e26e6e2e4 Append -git to version for continuing development 2016-10-19 09:43:05 -06:00