Bug#489599: update-notifier: Preferences does not work

Tue Jul 8 22:08:56 UTC 2008

On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 17:39 +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> reassign 489599 software-properties-gtk
> forcemerge 489497 489599
> thanks
> 
> Sam Morris wrote:
> > Package: update-notifier
> > Version: 0.70.7.debian-1
> > Severity: important
> > 
> > Right-clicking on the notification area icon and selecting Preferences
> > does nothing.
> 
> That calls software-properties-gtk with gksu, which fails to start (#489497) due
> to a bug in python-apt (#487673)

Shouldn't an error message be shown in this case?
> 
> Cheers,
> Emilio
> 
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