Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: synaptic
Synaptic forces apt-listchanges to use the gtk frontend even if it is
configured to only send mail. It's been like that for quite a while now
but today I felt like investigating the matter. Apparently this is an
inadvertent side effect of the fix committed for bug #17999. From
gtk/rgdebinstallprogress.cc line 370 [1]:
putenv("APT_LISTCHANGES_FRONTEND=gtk");
Judging from the apt-listchanges source code this environment variable
always takes precedence over the setting in the configuration file.
However, I really only want the mail output for easy reference in case I
need it, and perhaps for a little relaxed bedtime reading... or maybe
not. Anyway, right now there seems to be no way to shut up apt-
listchanges and still get the mails, short of hacking synaptic or apt-
listchanges. So, to fix this I could either add some logic in synaptic
to handle the listchanges frontend properly, or alternatively redefine
APT_LISTCHANGES_FRONTEND to only apply if the configuration file doesn't
say "none" or "mail", which could be handled within apt-listchanges
itself.
Any other ideas? Which is the preferred way to go?
[1] <http://codebrowse.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-
dev/synaptic/ubuntu/annotate/michael.vogt%40ubuntu.com-20070910152852-gins4bdv4rdm0kxz?file_id=rgdebinstallprogress.cc-20060222190946-48af831e059fbbc9#L370>
** Affects: synaptic (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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apt-listchanges setup ignored
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/141366
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