Re: [Synaptic-devel] Updating of the list of packages with new versions

[Michael Vogt]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 12:27:55AM +0100, Martijn Anthonissen wrote:
> First of all a big thank you to all the developers. Synaptic has been a
> very good program for a long time now and it just keeps getting better
> and better.

Thanks, good to hear :) 
 
> I have found one minor glitch, which might be by design, but I thought I
> would check on the list. If you use the "Status" button in version 0.55
> to list all packages that have a newer version available, the list does
> not get updated when you select a new "default distribution".

Yeah, thanks for reporting this problem. It's fixed on in the current
development version. 

[..]
> It might be that this is by design because updating the package lists
> would consume too much time. It would be nice if the list is
> automatically refreshed though.

No, it was just a oversight of us. We are happy about bugreports like
this :)

thanks,
 Michael


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