Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: synaptic
KDE version 3.5.9
lsb_release -d => Ubuntu 8.04.1
Use case:
Kate launches synaptic from the KDE menu and is prompted to enter her password
by KdeSudo so it can run with root privileges.
Kate logs out without closing synaptic.
When she logs in again an untitled messages box states
Starting without administrative privileges
You will not be able to apply any any changes. But you can still export the
marked changes or create a download script for them.
<OK>
After dutifully exporting the changes to ~/Desktop/changes.txt she finds that
the file is empty.
Things to fix:
1. If synaptic had extended privileges in the last session then it should be
able to re-invoke itself through the same method it was invoked with before, in
this case kdesu.
2. Does synaptic save the changes across sessions?
3. If there were no changes made then the user shouldn't be prompted( / able?)
to save them.
4. Shouldn't the KDE session manager be doing this?
** Affects: synaptic (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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synaptic doesn't know how to ask for root priviledges
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/250336
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