I am using Xubuntu-24.04 but have noticed this in all other Debian based OSs that I use; Debian, Mint, etc.
Synaptic package manager has completely stopped showing any screenshots of applications that I know it used to show when clicking the Get Screenshot button.
This is not a major problem but was useful if investigating an application that I do not know much about.
Is this a change that has been discussed at all here (I can’t find anything) or is it a very recent change to synaptic.
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I hadn’t noticed but now I tried and I have the same problem, so I opened a bug:
if you have the same problem and have a launchpad account please subscribe to my bug.
Question: the problem also occurs in Debian, should I open a bug on gitlab too?
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Obviously, if the problem exists on Debian it will also exist on all *buntu
Yes, as I said it is the same on Debian and Mint so I will have a good search of the Debian user forum to see if I can find anything about it there.
I don’t use synaptic very much these days but occasionally it is very useful eg, when I know some part of a package name but I’m not totally sure of the full .name
I’ve done so.
That might be a good idea! Then it would probably be helpful to cross-reference the two bugs to each other.
The problem isn’t with Synaptic, per se, though it might have to be patched to fix the issue. The issue is that Synaptic uses an HTTP connection to fetch a screenshot image for a package from screenshots.debian.net. Apparently, screenshots.debian.net recently stopped serving content over HTTP and now uses just HTTPS which Synaptic doesn’t handle.
I personally don’t see much need to serve image screenshots of applications over a secure connection, but I guess enough users do. The screenshots.debian.net/about page has a feedback mailto: link for the owner and maintainer of the site, so maybe drop him an email asking to serve up content over HTTP until Synaptic is patched.
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