On 4/10/19, Nazar Zhuk wrote: > On 4/10/19 10:58 AM, David Wright wrote: >> On Sat 06 Apr 2019 at 08:42:31 (+0100), Jonathan Dowland wrote: >>> On Fri, Apr 05, 2019 at 09:39:23PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > >>>> Given a straight toss-up though, I think synaptic has to give way >>>> because >>>> there are plenty of alternatives. I'd never heard of it until a few >>>> people >>>> started mentioning it here, and I'd never consider using it myself on X >>>> except >>>> as an ordinary user. >>> >>> The severity of the bug in synaptic (which is what has caused its >>> autoremoval) >>> would not be "serious" if the default desktop was not Wayland. So >>> changing >>> *that*, would mean synaptic could be reintroduced. >> >> So Debian should have its policy dictated by bugs in an unrelated >> package. Seems an odd strategy. > > If a change (Wayland default) is introducing issues to a stable (in a > generic sense) system, shouldn't the change be postponed until the > issues are resolved? Perhaps with the help from the change proponents.
My understanding is that sudo synaptic not working for anybody other than root is a desired feature of Wayland - not something that would or should be fixed. But I'm also under the impression that logging in as root & running synaptic works, so removing synaptic altogether still seems a bit excessive. Lee
