Synaptic says it "Successfully applied all changes" when it didn't
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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synaptic (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Low
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Michael Vogt |
Bug Description
I'm at an Internet cafe with a flaky Internet connection, so whenever I download
a day's worth of updates, some of them fail. But at the end Synaptic tells me
that it "Successfully applied all changes", which isn't true.
My preferred fix for this bug would be to automatically close the window when
the update process has stopped (removing the checkbox for configuring this
behavior), so this text would never appear. I already get an alert listing the
packages that weren't successful; I don't need an extra click's-worth of window
telling me that they were.
Failing that, customize the text to say something other than "Successfully
applied all changes" when some of the changes weren't successful.
Thanks for your bugreport.
I agree that it will need to be fixed in the future (not for hoary, it will be
release on 8. April).
From synaptics POV the message is correct, because it applied a set of changes
correctly (everything that it was be able to download). It's still misleading.