Subject: synaptic: Should not set APT::Install-Recommends (globally)
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2014 18:30:58 +0200
Package: synaptic
Version: 0.81.2
Dear Maintainer,
synaptic ships /etc/apt.conf.d/99synaptic which sets
APT::Install-Recommends to true globally for all APT based applications.
IMHO no application should be so arrogant to change that value globally
as its default is "true" anyway and if it has been changed, it has been
changed by the local administrator deliberately and should not be
overriden by any application, especially not globally.
If it's needed for synaptic's well-behaving (which I doubt),
it should set that value internally, but not globally.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (110, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.15-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages synaptic depends on:
ii hicolor-icon-theme 0.13-1
ii libapt-inst1.5 1.0.6
ii libapt-pkg4.12 1.0.6
ii libatk1.0-0 2.12.0-1
ii libc6 2.19-7
ii libcairo-gobject2 1.12.16-2
ii libcairo2 1.12.16-2
ii libept1.4.12 1.0.12
ii libgcc1 1:4.9.1-4
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.30.7-1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.40.0-3
ii libgtk-3-0 3.12.2-1+b1
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.36.3-1
ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.36.3-1
ii libstdc++6 4.9.1-4
ii libvte-2.90-9 1:0.36.3-1
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.2-2
ii libxapian22 1.2.18-1
ii libxext6 2:1.3.2-1
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-1
Versions of packages synaptic recommends:
ii gksu 2.0.2-6
ii libgtk2-perl 2:1.2491-4
pn rarian-compat <none>
Versions of packages synaptic suggests:
ii apt-xapian-index 0.46
ii deborphan 1.7.28.8
pn dwww <none>
ii menu 2.1.47
pn software-properties-gtk <none>
ii tasksel 3.20
-- no debconf information
Acknowledgement sent
to Luca Capello <[email protected]>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Michael Vogt <[email protected]>.
(Tue, 25 Nov 2014 09:30:04 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).
found 756855 0.75.13
user [email protected]
usertags 756855 + itopie.ch-installation
user [email protected]
usertags 756855 + codha.ch-installation
thanks
0.75.13
Hi there,
On Sat, 02 Aug 2014 18:30:58 +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Package: synaptic
> Version: 0.81.2
This happens in wheezy as well, marked.
> synaptic ships /etc/apt.conf.d/99synaptic which sets
> APT::Install-Recommends to true globally for all APT based applications.
Actually, the above file is not present in the package itself, but it is
generated the first time synaptic is started, as etckeeper told me.
> IMHO no application should be so arrogant to change that value globally
[...]
> If it's needed for synaptic's well-behaving (which I doubt),
> it should set that value internally, but not globally.
Fully, agree.
Please note that IMHO this bug is at least important, if not more.
Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca
Acknowledgement sent
to Axel Beckert <[email protected]>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Michael Vogt <[email protected]>.
(Tue, 25 Nov 2014 09:39:04 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).
Subject: Re: Bug#756855: synaptic: Should not set APT::Install-Recommends
(globally)
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 10:35:40 +0100
Control: severity -1 important
Hi Luca,
Luca Capello wrote:
> > synaptic ships /etc/apt.conf.d/99synaptic which sets
> > APT::Install-Recommends to true globally for all APT based applications.
>
> Actually, the above file is not present in the package itself, but it is
> generated the first time synaptic is started, as etckeeper told me.
Thanks for the investigation and details.
Actually I noticed it because of tracking /etc/apt/ in git, too. (I
likely wouldn't have noticed it on those machines where I use
etckeeper as it does the commits automaticallt by default. :-)
> Please note that IMHO this bug is at least important, if not more.
Thanks for the comment. I was unsure about the real severity (I veered
between minor and important) and hence removed the explicit "Severity:
normal" deliberately because of that.
Since there's now a second opinion, I've now set the severity to
important.
Regards, Axel
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