Re: [Synaptic-devel] "Please contact the author of this software if this messageis diplayed"

[Philip Miller]

Michael Vogt wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 09:46:33PM -0400, Philip Miller wrote:
>
> > > Thanks. What kind of kernel do you run? How often did this happen? Is
> > > it reproducable? 
> >
> > $ uname -a
> > Linux phil 2.6.5+phil1 #1 Sun Apr 4 14:16:16 EDT 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
> >
> > Locally built, but no patches, just the vanilla kernel.org source.
> >
> > When I run it again from apt-watch, when it shows there are upgrades, I 
> > receive the same error on the first attempt at 'Apply'ing, and then it 
> > works correctly on the second, as before.
>
> Thanks a lot. The apt-watch hint helped a lot. I can reproduce the
> problem here and it looks like it's some issue with apt-watch and
> libzvt (the library we use for terminal output). I have version of
> synaptic that builds against a different terminal widget (vte from
> latest cvs) and the problem does not occur then. 

Out of curiosity, on Debian at least, why not just use the user's preferred 
xterm, rather than embeding your own? I would find synaptic much nicer if 
the output were in a gnome-terminal rather than the built-in one.

Philip Miller