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Long descriptions are badly truncated

Bug #37987 reported by Tiziano Tissino
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ubuntu
Invalid
Medium
Unassigned
synaptic (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Michael Vogt
Ubuntu ubuntu-6.06

Bug Description

When moving the mouse over the package list, some long description is truncated and last characters in the string are (randomly?) replaced by some other char.

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Tiziano Tissino (t-tissino) wrote :

This bug happens on ubuntu/dapper (synaptic version 0.57.8)

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

Rejecting duplicate task; don't worry, the bug is still open.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

Probably a duplicate of bug 37817?

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

Thanks for your bugreport.

Could you please add a screenshot of this?

Thanks,
 Michael

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

Thanks for your bugreport.

I uploaded a new 0.57.8ubuntu8 that should fix the problem. Please let me know if that version works better for you.

Cheers,
 Michael

Changed in synaptic:
assignee: nobody → mvo
status: Unconfirmed → Fix Committed
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Tiziano Tissino (t-tissino) wrote : Re: [Bug 37987] Re: Long descriptions are badly truncated

The new version works nice for me.

Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor)
Changed in synaptic:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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