synaptic on 17.10

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Thu, 25 Jan 2018 10:00:31 +0100, Gilles Gravier wrote:
>2018-01-25 6:58 GMT+01:00 Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com>:
>> On 25/01/2018, Peter Hillier-Brook <phb at hbsys.plus.com> wrote:  
>>> I've just upgraded a friend's machine to Ubuntu 17:10 and joined a
>>> long list of people who've discovered that synaptic wont start.
>>>
>>> Has anyone information as to if/when this disastrous failure of
>>> testing has/will be fixed?
>>>  
>>
>> Does this mean that 18.04 will automatically be permanently broken
>> from the releas  
>
>It's not really 18.04 that is broken, but rather Synaptic which is...
>and not yet fixed to use the new permissions model of 17.10 and
>onwards.

Synaptic is not broken, it works with X.