[Synaptic-devel] Ambiguous error message

[Andreas Schmidt]

Hi,

I just noticed (with synaptic 0.53.4-1) that the message in the "Could  
not mark all packages for installation or upgrade" dialog are a bit  
unclear:

gksu:
 Depends: libatk1.0-0 but 1.6.1-3 is to be installed
 Depends: libpango1.0-0 but 1.4.1-2 is to be installed

I couldn't really figure out what this was about, and it wasn't too  
helpful that in gksu's properties window I didn't think about  
"Dependencies of the latest version", but always looked at  
"Dependencies". :-) I believe it would be more obvious to use more  
detailed messages, like apt does:

gksu: Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.7.2) but 1.6.1-3 is to be installed
        Depends: libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.5.2) but 1.4.1-2 is to be  
installed

Best regards,

Andreas