Synaptic doesn't remember when pinned packages are unlocked

[Eric Nichols]

Under the latest Breezy, I am having trouble unlocking pinned packages in synaptic.
I can unlock them from the menu option, but if I close synaptic and reopen it the
packages revert to their pinned state.

[Dennis Kaarsemaker (dennis)]

Did you hit apply?

[Eric Nichols (eric.nichols)]

You can't hit the apply button if the only thing you have done is unlock packages;
it remains inactive.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

I can't reproduce the problem here, can you please send me your
"/var/lib/synaptic/preferences" file ?

If the trouble is that you can't unlock packages that you locked "by-hand" (e.g.
by editing /etc/apt/preferences) than this is intentional. Synaptic will not
mess with the configuration in /etc/apt.

[Eric Nichols (eric.nichols)]

Created an attachment (id=4518)
Synaptic preferences file

[Eric Nichols (eric.nichols)]

I have attached my Synaptic preferences file. I pinned these packages using the
"lock package"
in Synaptic. I have not done any pinning "by hand", thus, I do not have an
/etc/apt/preferences
file. Is there anything in my apt settings independent of pinning-related
settings that could
be causing this behavior?

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

(In reply to comment #5)
> I have attached my Synaptic preferences file. I pinned these packages using the
> "lock package"
> in Synaptic. I have not done any pinning "by hand", thus, I do not have an
> /etc/apt/preferences
> file. Is there anything in my apt settings independent of pinning-related
> settings that could
> be causing this behavior?

Thanks for your preferences file. I just tried to reproduce the problem with it
and was not successful (that means, it works for me).

Do you see anything usefull in your ~/.xsession-error file that looks releated
to this problem (feel free to attach it here). And what locale do you use?

[Eric Nichols (eric.nichols)]

Created an attachment (id=4539)
X session errors file

[Eric Nichols (eric.nichols)]

Created an attachment (id=4540)
X session errors on Synaptic restart

[Eric Nichols (eric.nichols)]

I have attached my .xsession-errors file. It had a couple of errors messages
that seem relevant.
I am using en_US.UTF-8 as my locale, but I also have the SCIM IME installed to
allow me to type
in Japanese. Perhaps this is the source of my problems?

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Is this still a problem with current dapper? I remember that I fixed a error in this a while ago.

Cheers,
 michael

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

I close this bug for now because I got no feedback that it still happens. I'm pretty sure I fixed this bug. Please reopen if you still can reproduce it.