Can't use Synaptic with GNOME 3.12 (PPA)

[Tim]

On 10/05/14 00:40, Christian Dysthe wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-05-09 at 11:21 +1000, Tim wrote:
>> On 09/05/14 08:50, Christian Dysthe wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am having a problem with Synaptic in Gnome 3.12 (from PPA) in Ubuntu
>>> GNOME 14.04. Synaptic is very slow and takes almost a minute to be ready
>>> for use. 
>> I have seen this slow loading, however I have not seen any of the below symptons.
>> I suppose just file the bug against synaptic in Ubuntu, whatever is causing the issue
>> is most likely to cause problems once we start transitioning utopic to 3.12
> I will report it. As a user I wonder how to correctly report problems
> related to the staging PPA. I have notification issues in 3.12 (icons
> not showing). Should I just report them as Ubuntu bugs?
For bugs with gnome3-team PPA packages you just run `ubuntu-bug <package>` as per normal. and the report will get automatically redirected to
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-gnome
>
>>> But as soon as I type in search or try to apply anything it
>>> hangs again for another minute. It's is unusable for all practical
>>> purposes. It also slows down the whole desktop and turn animations
>>> jerky. I am not able to close Synaptic either having to kill the
>>> process. Everything else seems to work fine. How and where should I
>>> report this problem? After a ppa-purge Synaptic works as normal again.
>>>