editkeep should exit with an error on startup if user cannot edit /var/lib/deborphan/keep

[krak3n]

Binary package hint: deborphan

Version 1.7.28ubuntu1. I started editkeep as a normal user and began selecting packages to keep. Then I clicked OK and editkeep exited with error "/var/lib/deborphan/keep: Permission denied". This was a bad user experience because I wasted my time selecting those packages and had to redo the work again after I restarted editkeep using sudo. Preferred behavior would be for editkeep to exit immediately if user does not have permissions or flash a message that user does not have write permissions and then allow a read-only view.

[CarstenHey (c.hey)]

* krak3n [2010-07-15 17:39 -0000]:
> Version 1.7.28ubuntu1. I started editkeep as a normal user and began
> selecting packages to keep. Then I clicked OK and editkeep exited with
> error "/var/lib/deborphan/keep: Permission denied". This was a bad user
> experience because I wasted my time selecting those packages and had to
> redo the work again after I restarted editkeep using sudo. Preferred
> behavior would be for editkeep to exit immediately if user does not have
> permissions or flash a message that user does not have write permissions
> and then allow a read-only view.

Thanks for your bug report, I fixed the equivalent orphaner bug about
two years ago and should have thought about fixing it for editkeep too.

This will be part of the next major release of deborphan.

Regards
Carsten