Re: Testing/Unstable Synaptic broken again.
On Sun, Sep 04, 2016 at 08:43:04PM -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote:
> 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.
Do you fellas have 'apt-listbugs' installed? Don't know if it would have
helped in this case, but running SID one should have that package
installed. Lets you know before hand if bugs have been filed - of course
if none have, it's still buyer beware on SID. Hope you all filed bug
reports. ;-D
I'm on testing, so have nothing to report in terms of the issues in this
thread.
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