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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: gnome-apt: "Unsatisfied Dependencies" pop-up text is redundant
- From: A Costa <agcosta@gis.net>
- Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 23:00:50 -0400
- Message-id: <E19vTJj-0001IK-00@Arf>
Package: gnome-apt
Version: 0.4.4-2
Severity: minor
Again fire up 'gnome-apt'. Under 'outdated' I see a new version of
'file' and click on it. Pop goes the window:
1 Unsatisfied Dependencies (title)
2 Package | Version needed | Version to be installed (header)
3 libmagic1 = 4.03-3 4.03-2 (text list)
4
5 * needed by file
6
7 Installing the selected package would introduce unsatisfied dependencies.
8 Should I try adding and/or removing packages to resolve the problems?
9
10 [Ignore] [No] [Yes]
Consider lines #1, #2, #5, and #7. The only place where the offending
package ('file') is identified by name is #5. Vital information shouldn't
be buried.
Suggest changing #1 (the title) to something like:
1 The new 'file' package version 4.03-3 has unsatisfied dependencies
1 'file' v4.03-3 has unsatisfied dependencies
1 Package: 'file', new version 4.03-3 has unsatisfied dependencies
(Giving the version number may help the user understand that there's
nothing wrong with the installed version, and the trouble is with
a particular version of a package, not the package in general.)
Also suggest deleting line #5, after changing #1.
Line #7 is redundant. Changing "the selected package" to "file" (or whatever
the package was) would make it shorter and easier to read:
7 Installing 'file' v4.03-3 would introduce unsatisfied dependencies.
...but that repeats what line #1 should say. Suggest deleting #7,
after changing #1.
BTW, if, for some odd programming reason, changing line #1 is difficult,
then suggest adding a line between #1 and #2, like so:
1 Unsatisfied Dependencies (title)
1.5 'file' v4.03-3 (boldface, maybe bigger font.)
Then deleting lines #5 and #7, for the reasons given.
Hope this helps...
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux Arf 2.4.21-1-k6 #2 Mon Jun 16 22:19:43 EST 2003 i586
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Versions of packages gnome-apt depends on:
ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6 0.5.10 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii apt-utils [libapt-ins 0.5.10 APT utility programs
ii bonobo-activation 1:2.2.4-1 Bonobo Activation Framework
ii gksu 0.9.16 Gtk+ Frontend to su
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.15-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libatk1.0-0 1.2.4-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libaudiofile0 0.2.3-4 The Audiofile Library
ii libbonobo-activation4 1:2.2.4-1 Bonobo Activation Framework -- run
ii libbonobo2-0 2.2.3-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libbonoboui2-0 2.2.4-1 The Bonobo UI library
ii libc6 2.3.2-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libesd0 0.2.29-1 Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared
ii libgcc1 1:3.3.2-0pre2 GCC support library
ii libgconf2-4 2.2.1-3 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libgcrypt1 1.1.12-3 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii libglib2.0-0 2.2.3-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome2-0 2.2.3-2 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.2.1-3 A powerful object-oriented display
ii libgnomeui-0 2.2.2-2 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii libgnomevfs2-0 2.2.5-3 The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii libgnomevfs2-common 2.2.5-3 The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii libgnutls7 0.8.9-2 GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.2.2-3 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libjpeg62 6b-8 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii liblinc1 2:1.0.3-3 library to simplify creating netwo
ii liborbit2 1:2.6.3-2 Libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpango1.0-0 1.2.3-1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpopt0 1.7-2 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.2-0pre2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libtasn1-0 0.1.2-1 Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii libxml2 2.5.10-1 GNOME XML library
ii libzvt2.0-0 2.0.1cvs20021009-4 The GNOME 2 zvt (zterm) widget - r
ii xlibs 4.2.1-11 X Window System client libraries
ii zlib1g 1:1.1.4-14 compression library - runtime
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