Hi!
Yes, several bugs would be better, but having a summary like this is
also helpful. Let's go step-by-step. Please note that these are my
comments and not related to what the upstream maintainer might think:
> - the main window that comes up when i click on the update notifier has
> a relatively big scrolling area with the list of packages, and a tiny
> one with the changelogs. They should at the very least be resizeable
> so I can read more than one line from the changelogs without
> scrolling
Agreed, I also found this annoying and prepared some small changes,
but I haven't finished that stuff yet, as I am right in an exam phase
at time.
> - the formatting of changelogs is broken, it should respect the original
> formatting if it can't do a better job at keeping item lists readable
Yep, that is obviously a bug.
> - it only asks for a password after it's shown the list of updates and
> I've clicked on 'install updates' and accepted the list of new/removed
> packages. Not quite sure shoving that kind of thing in the face of
> people who aren't the machine's admin is a good idea.
How do you mean? Should we change policy to allow any user to install
updates without asking for password? Or do you mean we just shouldn't
show the list of installed/removed packages?
> - and then after I've typed in the root password it just sits there
> doing nothing, presumably because apt is waiting on apt-listchanges,
> which is showing NEWS files in a pty somewhere that I don't seem to
> have access to.
Yep, that's a problem with apt-listchanges. GPK-Update-Viewer should
show a small progress bar in the left corner. You're the
apt-listchanges maintainer, right? We could solve that issue if you
would provide a env var with tools like PackageKit or aptd could set
to disable apt-listchanges, or - even better - add Debconf support to
apt-listchanges so frontends can show a UI for that. (I heard you're
already working on that)
In general, I talked to upstream about that and he'd happily accept
patches, if someone creates them. I unfortunately have not that much
time the next three weeks, but after that I can make UI changes again.
(unfortunately this will be after freeze, so if someone creates a
patch, feel free to send it to me and upstream, maybe I could include
it before freeze happens, although it would be a little late already)
Thanks for the report!
Cheers,
Matthias
2012/6/19 Julien Cristau <jcris...@debian.org>:
> Package: gnome-packagekit
> Version: 3.4.2-1
> Severity: important
> X-Debbugs-CC: pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org
>
> This should probably be several reports, but here goes:
>
> - the main window that comes up when i click on the update notifier has
> a relatively big scrolling area with the list of packages, and a tiny
> one with the changelogs. They should at the very least be resizeable
> so I can read more than one line from the changelogs without
> scrolling
> - the formatting of changelogs is broken, it should respect the original
> formatting if it can't do a better job at keeping item lists readable
> - it only asks for a password after it's shown the list of updates and
> I've clicked on 'install updates' and accepted the list of new/removed
> packages. Not quite sure shoving that kind of thing in the face of
> people who aren't the machine's admin is a good idea.
> - and then after I've typed in the root password it just sits there
> doing nothing, presumably because apt is waiting on apt-listchanges,
> which is showing NEWS files in a pty somewhere that I don't seem to
> have access to.
>
> Cheers,
> Julien
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: wheezy/sid
> APT prefers stable-updates
> APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500,
> 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (101, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
>
> Versions of packages gnome-packagekit depends on:
> ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.12.1-1
> ii gnome-packagekit-data 3.4.2-1
> ii gnome-settings-daemon 3.4.2-3
> ii libatk1.0-0 2.4.0-2
> ii libc6 2.13-33
> ii libcairo-gobject2 1.12.2-2
> ii libcairo2 1.12.2-2
> ii libcanberra-gtk3-0 0.28-4
> ii libcanberra0 0.28-4
> ii libdbus-1-3 1.6.0-1
> ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.98-1
> ii libfontconfig1 2.9.0-6
> ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.26.1-1
> ii libglib2.0-0 2.32.3-1
> ii libgtk-3-0 3.4.2-1
> ii libnotify4 0.7.5-1
> ii libpackagekit-glib2-14 0.7.4-4
> ii libpango1.0-0 1.30.0-1
> ii libsqlite3-0 3.7.13-1
> ii libupower-glib1 0.9.16-3
> ii libx11-6 2:1.4.99.901-2
> ii packagekit 0.7.4-4
>
> gnome-packagekit recommends no packages.
>
> gnome-packagekit suggests no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information
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