Package: gnome-packagekit Version: 3.18.0-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
I noticed gpk-application would not display any packages/search results if the packagekit package was not installed on the system. Without packagekit, running gpk-application from a terminal emulator returns: 23:43:59 PackageKit role now get-repo-list 23:43:59 GnomePackageKit CLEAR search 23:43:59 GnomePackageKit no input 23:43:59 GnomePackageKit CLEAR search 23:43:59 GnomePackageKit no input 23:43:59 PackageKit notify::connected 23:43:59 GnomePackageKit set search type=0 23:43:59 GnomePackageKit CLEAR welcome 23:43:59 GnomePackageKit now finished 23:43:59 GnomePackageKit failed to get list of repos: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.PackageKit was not provided by any .service files and gpk-application displays zero packages, even after entering a search term. After installing packagekit, gpk-application works properly. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages gnome-packagekit depends on: ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.24.0-2 ii gnome-packagekit-data 3.18.0-1 ii libatk1.0-0 2.18.0-1 ii libc6 2.19-22 ii libcairo-gobject2 1.14.2-2 ii libcairo2 1.14.2-2 ii libcanberra-gtk3-0 0.30-2.1 ii libcanberra0 0.30-2.1 ii libfontconfig1 2.11.0-6.3 ii libfreetype6 2.6-2 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.32.1-1 ii libglib2.0-0 2.46.1-1 ii libgtk-3-0 3.18.2-1 ii libnotify4 0.7.6-2 ii libpackagekit-glib2-18 1.0.10-1 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.38.1-1 ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.38.1-1 ii libsqlite3-0 3.8.11.1-1 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.3-1 gnome-packagekit recommends no packages. gnome-packagekit suggests no packages. -- no debconf information