Re: [Synaptic-devel] "Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages."

[Andreas Schmidt]

Hi, Michael,

On 2004.06.09 11:29, Michael Vogt wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 04:39:31AM +0200, Andreas Schmidt wrote:

> > assumes that cancelling the upgrade had already reset the marked
> > changes. Even worse, when one has a hunch that there may be some
> > problem and selects "Fix Broken Packages" from the "Actions" menu
> the
> > message pops up as well.
>
> I think I fixed this in the 0.50 release that is pending right now  
> (we
> only wait a bit with the release to give the translators a chance to
> catch up). Can you please give it a try? Add this to your
> sources.list:
>
> deb http://people.debian.org/~mvo/synaptic/0.50/ ./
>
> and report any problems that you find!
the problem I reported really got fixed in the latest version. There  
is, however, another problem.
When I start synaptic as regular user (via gksu), I get a message that  
synaptic may crash because of "Incorrect or incompatible locale  
settings". It usually does crash when I apply changes, after all  
packages have been downloaded.
The weird thing is that this message does not pop up when I start  
synaptic as root from the commandline. I just checked again, the locale  
settings really are the same for both root and the useraccount:

address@hidden:~# locale
LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1
address@hidden
address@hidden
LC_TIME=en_US.ISO-8859-1
address@hidden
address@hidden
LC_MESSAGES=en_US.ISO-8859-1
address@hidden
address@hidden
address@hidden
address@hidden
address@hidden
address@hidden
LC_ALL=
address@hidden:~#

Besides that, I have a wishlist item. Would it be possible to  
reintroduce the Search-box that used to be on the top right? I know  
that there are a search filter and a find dialogue. What I liked about  
the old thingie, however, is that you could type in a word and it would  
quickly move the cursor to the appropriate item in the current view  
instead of listing all packages containing the search string.

Thanks for a great program.  Best regards,

Andreas