Bug#725885:

2013-11-06 Thread Luke Drummond
Hi Michael gksu appears to not set any of the same environment variables, so I put the strncmp("root", ...) call in there and return false. The behaviour I chose is to do nothing if we can't assume a non-priveleged user. The user experience though is that Synaptic silently does nothing. I don't

Bug#725885:

2013-11-05 Thread Michael Vogt
On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 03:49:43AM +, Luke Drummond wrote: > Hello Michael Hi Luke, thanks for your bugreport and your patch! > I've tracked down the source of the problem, and think I've created an > appropriate patch. The function RunAsSudoUserCommand() was > dereferencing a NULL pointer

Bug#725885: Retitle

2013-11-05 Thread Filipus Klutiero
retitle 725885 crashes when trying to visit homepage while not running via sudo tags 725885 + patch -- Filipus Klutiero http://www.philippecloutier.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian

Bug#725885:

2013-11-03 Thread Luke Drummond
Hello Michael I've tracked down the source of the problem, and think I've created an appropriate patch. The function RunAsSudoUserCommand() was dereferencing a NULL pointer when failing to check for the return value of getenv("SUDO_UID"); I was launching Synaptic with gksu which does not set thi

Bug#725885: [synaptic] crashes when trying to visit homepage (KDE)

2013-10-09 Thread Filipus Klutiero
Package: synaptic Version: 0.80.4 Severity: normal Many packages define their homepage. For example, filelight does. Synaptic now displays a curious Visit Homepage link for these packages (initially looks like a simple link, but looks like a button when clicked). When I click this button, Syna