Issue if installed by gdebi as a dependency

[Vadim Peretokin]

Binary package hint: postfix

If postfix gets dragged in as a dependency by gdebi, it does not open a graphical configuration window but a terminal one.

Since gdebi's terminal is closed by default, the user might spend a lot of time waiting and wondering why isn't anything being installed, while postfix is waiting for user input.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: postfix 2.5.5-1.1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: postfix
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic x86_64

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Not a postfix bug.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

gdebi sets DEBIAN_FRONTEND=gnome - was perl-gtk2 installed when you ran into this bug?

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

I can confirm this here

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gdebi - 0.5.0

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gdebi (0.5.0) karmic; urgency=low

  [ Anders Kaseorg ]
  * GDebi/DebPackage.py:
    - Look for Pre-Depends instead of PreDepends. (Closes: #435577)
      (LP: #392714)

  [ Michael Vogt ]
  * GDebi/DebPackage.py:
    - fix typo (LP: #387022)
  * data/gdebi-kde.desktop:
    - increase initialPreference value (LP: #379150)
  * data/gdebi.ui:
    - ported to GtkBuilder
  * fix crash because we made the window sensitive too early
    (LP: #355268)
  * do not resolve versionized dependencies with virtual
    packages (LP: #373154)
  * honor "GDEBI_DEBUG_LEVEL" environment var
  * GDebi/GDebi.py:
    - workaround bug in vte where forkpty() does not pass the
      environment (LP: #367959)
    - set the image in the gtkbuilder file, hopefully fixes
      (LP: #345260)
  * debian/rules:
    - build with DY_PYCENTRAL=include-links

 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:06:27 +0200

[Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin)]

Great stuff.