Re: [Synaptic-devel] Build problems from trunk

[Michael Vogt]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 08:38:48PM +0100, Kelemen Gábor wrote:
> OK, on the gtk-2.4 system builds and works fine. Almost :)
> There is only one small problem, on the distributions window. My sytem 
> (called Uhu-linux, dpkg-based, but not Debian) doesn't uses unstable, 
> testing, etc, there is only one branch (referenced in sources.list as 
> "./"), so on the distributions tab the list of available distributions 
> is empty, and if i choose the "prefer versions from:" checkbox, synaptic 
> segfaults. Can this be repaired?

I think it can :) I think the latest svn fixes this bug. 
 
> > #: gtk/rguserdialog.cc:72
> >> msgid "The following problems where found on your system:"
> >> where should be were.
> 
> 
> This is a new generic message when libapt reported problems in a
> operation. I'm not overly happy with the wording and open for good
> ideas  :)
> 
> I got an idea for this:
> "The following errors occurred while applying changes:"
> Perhaps better, than the original. At least, it covers the case of 
> pressing cancel button while downloading, while the current doesn't.

Unfortunately this message can be displayed after nearly any
operation. The most common ones are failed updates because the server
or network connection is down. So it has to be slightly more
generic. 

> P.s: Michael, please don't cc me your messages, i'm reading the list :)

I'll try to rember that :) You may want to to set the Mail-Followup-To
header. I think my mutt will not CC you automatically then.

thanks,
 Michael

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