Synaptic doesn't play nice with apt-listchanges
Bug #1017 reported by
Steve Laniel
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| synaptic (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Michael Vogt | ||
Bug Description
If apt-listchanges is installed and configured to prompt you for changes, and you upgrade some packages, synaptic will wait forever for you to tell apt-listchanges that it can upgrade
If apt-listchanges is installed and configured to prompt you for changes, and you upgrade some packages, synaptic will wait forever for you to tell apt-listchanges that it can upgrade. You need to open the terminal window to see that apt-listchanges is waiting for a prompt.
Synaptic should behave sensibly when apt-listchanges is installed. Whether this means that debconf should ask to reconfigure apt-listchanges, or that synaptic should prompt the user with an apt-listchanges question, I'm not sure.
| Changed in synaptic: | |
| assignee: | nobody → mvo |
Revision history for this message
| Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in synaptic: | |
| status: | New → PendingUpload |
| Changed in synaptic: | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
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I think I posted a comment about this yesterday already but may malone eat it? Or I have a fals e memory syndrome :)
I added a "gtk" frontend to apt-listchanges that synaptic tries to enforce when it runs in the graphical installation mode. I also added a timeout in synaptic that will open the termianl window if no action takes place on the terminal window for 60s (assuming something prompts there).
Hope that helps,
Michael