Package: synaptic Version: 0.57-2 Severity: normal
Synaptic doesn't seem to honor Package upgrade behaviour (default distribution) to display package descriptions, at least when the default distribution is not the highest one. I am experiencing this behavior for all the packages I verified, that is gnumeric and ssh. I noticed the behavior when ssh was described as a transitional package on an Etch/Sid mix. Note that Default-Release is also set to testing. In case the behavior is intentional, remember that while a few description changes are fixes that apply to old versions, most (hopefully, anyway) are updates reflecting changes in the package. For example, seeing ssh described as a transitional package depending on openssh-client and openssh-server led me to believe I better try to install the real package I needed, which failed since unstable had broken dependencies for that one. When I understood the real problem, installing ssh through synaptic worked, installing the testing version as expected. Before sending this report, I realized that this may actually concern more package properties than just the description. The dependencies have a "Dependencies of the latest version" option, but maybe a general option for determining which distribution package properties must be taken from should be implemented. This bug was present in sarge's synaptic. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-386 Locale: LANG=fr_CA, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages synaptic depends on: ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.3- 0.5.28.6 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii libatk1.0-0 1.10.1-2 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libfontconfig1 2.3.2-1 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2.4 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgcc1 1:4.0.1-2 GCC support library ii libglade2-0 1:2.5.1-2 library to load .glade files at ru ii libglib2.0-0 2.6.5-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgtk2.0-0 2.6.8-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libncurses5 5.4-9 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libpango1.0-0 1.8.2-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.6-7 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libvte4 1:0.11.13-2 Terminal emulator widget for GTK+ ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Window System protocol client li ii libxft2 2.1.7-1 FreeType-based font drawing librar ii libxml2 2.6.20-1 GNOME XML library ii libxrender1 1:0.9.0-2 X Rendering Extension client libra ii scrollkeeper 0.3.14-10 A free electronic cataloging syste ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-4 compression library - runtime Versions of packages synaptic recommends: pn deborphan <none> (no description available) ii gksu 1.3.0-1 graphical frontend to su pn libgnome2-perl <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
