On 2019-04-15, Paul Sutton <zl...@disroot.org> wrote: > > Following the topic here on Synaptic in Buster being replaced with > gnome-packagekit
Synaptic is not being replaced. That notion is completely erroneous AFAIK. It has now been patched (package in unstable) so that it provides "visual feedback while starting" (or, I suppose one might say more pertinently, not starting) as per Paul Gevers comment on April 9 in the synaptic Bug #818366 thread. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=818366 https://tracker.debian.org/news/1038187/accepted-synaptic-0846-source-amd64-into-unstable/