Package: synaptic Version: 0.84.3 Severity: important Test Case ======== 1. From Debian GNOME Testing/Unstable or Ubuntu 18.04, make sure that you have debconf 1.5.66 (or higher) installed. Your default display manager should be gdm3. lightdm should not be installed. 2. Open Synaptic. Install lightdm
What happens ------------------ Synaptic appears to freeze on the Applying Changes screen at Preparing packages… But if you click Details, you'll see that it's trying to ask a debconf question which does work if you think of opening Details and answering the question of which display manager should be default. Suggested Fix =========== Synaptic recommends libgtk2-perl. That should be switched to libgtk3-perl. Given the usability problem found in the test case and given how popular it is for people to avoid installing recommends, I think it would be helpful to bump the Recommends to a Depends here too to prevent people from making things harder on themselves. References ========= Switching from libgtk2-perl to libgtk3-perl is recommended at the bottom of https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-debconf/debconf/commit/0250616b Thanks, Jeremy Bicha
