synaptic: column visibility preferences not saved

[Michael Vogt]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 01:47:34PM +0200, Alain Perry wrote:
> Package: synaptic
> Version: 0.53.4-1ubuntu4
> Severity: important

Thanks for your bugreport.
 
> Once column visibility preferences have been modified in synaptic, the
> package view becomes empty. If I quit and re-launch synaptic, the
> preferences window shows that no column is selected. If I re-select one,
> several or all of them, and apply the changes or validate, it doesn't
> work. If I quit and launch synaptic again, no column is selected once
> again. Modifying /root/.synaptic/synaptic.conf did the trick. The file
> is writable by root, so I believe it is not a permission problem (I
> didn't touch those anyway). Tried purging the package and reinstalling
> it, to no good. Tried to look at the source, but I'm to lame to get why
> it doesn't save the preferences properly.

This is a problem (endian) that was solved with
0.53.4-1ubuntu5. Unfortunately it didn't made it into the archive
before the release. I put the package online at
http://people.debian.org/~mvo/synaptic/warty. But IIRC there is no PPC
version available (I can't check now, I'm traveling).

thanks and sorry for my late reply,
 Michael

> Thanks.
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
> Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.8.1-3-powerpc
> Locale: LANG=fr_FR, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR
> 
> Versions of packages synaptic depends on:
> ii  apt [libapt-pkg-l 0.5.27.1               Advanced front-end for dpkg
> ii  gksu              1.2.0-2ubuntu2         graphical frontend to su
> ii  libatk1.0-0       1.8.0-1ubuntu2         The ATK accessibility toolkit
> ii  libc6             2.3.2.ds1-13ubuntu2    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
> ii  libfontconfig1    2.2.2-2ubuntu3         generic font configuration library
> ii  libfreetype6      2.1.7-2.1ubuntu1       FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
> ii  libgcc1           1:3.4.2-2ubuntu1       GCC support library
> ii  libglade2-0       1:2.4.0-1              Library to load .glade files at ru
> ii  libglib2.0-0      2.4.7-0ubuntu2         The GLib library of C routines
> ii  libgtk2.0-0       2.4.10-1ubuntu1        The GTK+ graphical user interface 
> ii  libncurses5       5.4-4                  Shared libraries for terminal hand
> ii  libpango1.0-0     1.6.0b-0ubuntu1        Layout and rendering of internatio
> ii  libstdc++5        1:3.3.4-9ubuntu5       The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
> ii  libvte4           1:0.11.11-4            Terminal emulator widget for GTK+ 
> ii  libx11-6          4.3.0.dfsg.1-6ubuntu25 X Window System protocol client li
> ii  libxft2           2.1.2-6                FreeType-based font drawing librar
> ii  libxml2           2.6.11-3ubuntu1        GNOME XML library
> ii  libxrender1       0.8.3-7                X Rendering Extension client libra
> ii  scrollkeeper      0.3.14-8               A free electronic cataloging syste
> ii  xlibs             4.3.0.dfsg.1-6ubuntu25 X Window System client libraries m
> ii  zlib1g            1:1.2.1.1-3ubuntu1     compression library - runtime
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 
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