On Thu, 4 Apr 2019 16:02:13 +0300 Reco <recovery...@enotuniq.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 09:20:51AM -0300, Francisco M Neto wrote: > > On Thu, 2019-04-04 at 12:33 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > > > If it is not, there is nothing preventing it's return to > > > repositories > > > > some time after. It happened with other useful and popular > > > > packages before. > > > > > > Indeed. Reading the bug report demonstrates that ppl are keen > > > for it to be re-instated. However, not working properly in Gnome > > > is considered (understandably, IMO) a show-stopper. > > > > What is the problem between Synaptic and Gnome? I've been > > using both without a single hiccup for years... > > The official reason is "'sudo synaptic' does not work with Wayland > session, therefore GNOME users will be confused". Also, comment 50 > from #818366. > I recall having trouble, twice, with a new Synaptic and its pkexec invocation. I was probably supposed to do something obscure with policykit, but instead I switched the menu entry to gksudo. -- Joe
