Re: Testing/Unstable Synaptic broken again.

[Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com>]

On 09/02/2016 12:53 AM, Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Sep 2016 19:09:32 -0700
> Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Jimmy,
>
> > Thanks Brad for letting me know that testing was okay, one of my 5
> > Sid/Testing systems was still not upgraded with the bug yet, so I
>
> Glad to be of service.  Even if it was a little on the late side.   :-(
>
> > removed the Sid repose so it would not get the bug, but the other 4
> > have a broken synaptic, Apt is one of the Sid upgrades and I figure
> > it's the culprit.
>
> I'll be careful to watch for the relevant upgrades as they appear in
> testing.  Maybe even pin apt & Synaptic for a while.  Like you said in
> response to Floris, the list of bugs against Synaptic is huge.   :-|

Here's an update, it seems to be a gtk problem, as the bug effects 
Parole Media Player's menu too.  Sid has "gir1*" and "gtk*" package 
upgrades that Testing does not have and without Synaptic I really don't 
know an easy way to downgrade the packages, outside of downloading the 
packages and using dpkg and I would have to lookup the depends too, 
maybe there is an easier way?  I hope upstream is working on this 
problem, before it hits Testing.
--
Jimmy Johnson

Debian Sid - KDE Plasma 5.6.4 - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda15
Registered Linux User #380263