history is being hidden

[Doug McMahon]

Test case:
Install synaptic, use it to install or update packages
Ck. File > History, it appears to be blank, users will have to 'pull' the far left side to the right to actually see.
In 14.04 the date column is always very small & needs to be pulled to the right to see full dates. Now it's completely pushed to the left.
Likely a gtk3/synaptic issue..

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
Package: synaptic 0.81.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-22.22-generic 3.19.8-ckt1
Uname: Linux 3.19.0-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.17.3-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sat Jul 4 12:43:55 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-06-15 (18 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Alpha amd64 (20150603)
SourcePackage: synaptic
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Harry (harry33)]

I cannot reproduce this bug.
Synaptic does keep and update the history.
You can also adjust this feature from Settings - Preferences - Files.

On the other hand, Synaptic needs to be rebuilt against the newer vte-2.91.

[ajgreeny (ajg-charlbury)]

I think this may simply be that the left hand pane of the History window is set as invisible and not showing.
Pull the pane divider to the right and the list of dates may appear as it has for me with full history available.
This has to be repeated at every use of synaptic

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Thanks ajgreeny, that worked for me and like you I have to do that each time I restart synaptic.

So the bug is trivial and easy to fix.

[dino99 (9d9)]

As a non-LTS release, 15.10 has a 9-month month support cycle and, as such, the support period is now nearing its end and Ubuntu 15.10 will reach end of life on Thursday, July 28th. At that time, Ubuntu Security Notices will no longer include information or updated packages for Ubuntu 15.10.

That issue has been fixed a while ago.