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Duplicate error can be annoying #56

Open trebmuh opened 4 years ago

trebmuh commented 4 years ago

(using synaptic 0.84.6 on Debian Buster)

When one have a duplicate in its source.list / source.list.d/*, then synaptic is issuing a window pop up message like this one:

synaptic-error

It is scarring for the user since it's written "Error" while it should only be a warning since it doesn't prevent Synaptic from running normally, it just slows it down because it pings different addresses. Suggestion is that it should be a "Warning" pop up windows instead of a "Error" one.

Going further, it'd be awesome to have a tick-box option somewhere to avoid synaptic to show this window if I choose so.

mvo5 commented 4 years ago

Yeah, I agree that this error is not great. It requires a bit of work to fix this, apt is giving us this data but does not provide much more so it's hard for synaptic to know if it's a real scary error (like a corrupted cache) or just something harmless like this.

trebmuh commented 3 years ago

Thanks for your answer @mvo5 .

Going beyond than further:

...it'd be awesome to have a tick-box option somewhere to avoid synaptic to show this window if I choose so.

As a live-build maker, I'd like to have an option for this "error" message not to be shown. I'm not sure how to do so, just throwing the idea here.