Synaptic says it "Successfully applied all changes" when it didn't

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

I'm at an Internet cafe with a flaky Internet connection, so whenever I download
a day's worth of updates, some of them fail. But at the end Synaptic tells me
that it "Successfully applied all changes", which isn't true.

My preferred fix for this bug would be to automatically close the window when
the update process has stopped (removing the checkbox for configuring this
behavior), so this text would never appear. I already get an alert listing the
packages that weren't successful; I don't need an extra click's-worth of window
telling me that they were.

Failing that, customize the text to say something other than "Successfully
applied all changes" when some of the changes weren't successful.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

I agree that it will need to be fixed in the future (not for hoary, it will be
release on 8. April).

From synaptics POV the message is correct, because it applied a set of changes
correctly (everything that it was be able to download). It's still misleading.

[GreatBunzinni (greatbunzinni)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Thanks for your bugreport.
>
> I agree that it will need to be fixed in the future (not for hoary, it will be
> release on 8. April).
>
> From synaptics POV the message is correct, because it applied a set of changes
> correctly (everything that it was be able to download). It's still misleading.

Kynaptic also claims that the operation went successfully (downloading packages from server and installing them) even when
the user is trying to get a package from a ftp repository and there is no internet connection to start with.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

(In reply to comment #0)
> I'm at an Internet cafe with a flaky Internet connection, so whenever I download
> a day's worth of updates, some of them fail. But at the end Synaptic tells me
> that it "Successfully applied all changes", which isn't true.
[..]
Hm, reading this bugreport again I'm not sure anymore what the problem is. If
some of packages fail to download, synaptic will open a dialog asking if the
sucessfully downloaded packages should be installed. Is this dialog shown for you?

[Daniel Robitaille (robitaille)]

Matthew, is that still a problem for you? The last comment from Michael last year seems to imply that the dialog it opens should make it obvious not all the updates were downloaded.

[Carthik Sharma (carthik)]

Since there has been no action or active feedback on this bug for about a year, I decide to take Synaptic on a spin to see if the problem still exists.
Here's what I did:
1) Disconnected from the internet
2) In synaptic, marked 3dchess to install
3) Clicked "apply"

Synaptic now throws an error message saying the package could not be downloaded. It does not say "Successfully applied changes" as the reporter claims it does.

I am closing this bug. Please feel free to reopen if this seems to be in error, or if you experience the problem again. Thank you.

[Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor)]

Perhaps you should try to reproduce the situtation in which the error appeared before you close a bug. The bug reports referrs ro failed downloads so you cannot compare this with a successful download. By the way I think it would be better to reject the bug instead of saying that we released a fix - this would imply that the bug was confirmed.

I can confirm the error. I think that the inital reporter pointed to a wording problem. If you successfully install all downloaded packages and there are on the hand some failed ones, the text of the final dialog shouldn't say "all" changes, since it only refers to the packages that could be downloaded.

[Carthik Sharma (carthik)]

Sorry Sebastian,

I did not have a working internet connection when I tried to recreate the bug. I wrote down the precise steps I carried out in order to clarify what I did and did not do. I see that the difference between what I, and the original reporter, did is that he had "some" failed downloads and I had "all" failed downloads.

Thanks for clarifying and confirming.

[Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor)]

Sorry for not reading your previous comment exactly.

[Adam Niedling (krychek)]

I never experienced this issue. Are you still able to recreate it? Since the original reporter was using a very old version of Ubuntu which is not supported anymore I'm closing this report. Please reopen if this is still an issue in a later version of Ubuntu.