Please port to polkit-1 or drop policykit usage

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checkbox is one of two remaining packages in the Ubuntu default install which still uses the deprecated policykit 0.9 API. Please port to the new polkit-1 API.

This generally means to change the backend code to the new API, completely throw away everything PolicyKit related from the frontends (polkit daemon invokes authorization dialogs on its own now), and moving around the .policy file.

Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/PolicyKitOneMigration for the current status and links to API docs and migration guide.

Please see http://bazaar.launchpad.net/%7Ejockey-hackers/jockey/trunk/revision/562 for an example of another Python project (Jockey).

Also, I noticed that the current PolicyKit usage does not make real sense:

      <allow_any>yes</allow_any>
      <allow_inactive>yes</allow_inactive>
      <allow_active>yes</allow_active>

in other words, there is no restriction at all. So if you don't need fine-grained permissions, then you could just drop all the PK stuff and restrict the D-BUS policy from

  <policy context="default">
    <allow send_destination="com.ubuntu.checkbox"
           send_interface="com.ubuntu.checkbox"/>
    <allow send_destination="com.ubuntu.checkbox"
           send_interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable"/>
    <allow send_destination="com.ubuntu.checkbox"
           send_interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties"/>
  </policy>

to

  <policy context="default">
    <allow send_destination="com.ubuntu.checkbox"
           send_interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable"/>
    <allow send_destination="com.ubuntu.checkbox"
           send_interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties"/>
  </policy>

  <policy at_console="true">
    <allow send_destination="com.ubuntu.checkbox"
           send_interface="com.ubuntu.checkbox"/>
  </policy>

so that users on a local foreground console users can run the tests, but nobody else.

at_console is deprecated as well, but at least still works (while the old policykit gnome agent is not even installed by default any more).