Bug#267173: gnome-system-tools: Please at least put the name of the package to install in the error message

[Enrico Zini]

Package: gnome-system-tools
Version: 2.22.1-5
Severity: normal

Hello,

I've just hit the same problem, and wasted some time in figuring out what needs
to be installed.

If it's too much trouble adding a button to install the package automatically,
please at least indicate what package needs to be installed. There are MANY
ntp-related packages in Debian, and ntp-simple as indicated elsewhere in this
report does not even exist anymore.

Just saying "please install the package ntp to enable this feature" would
empower any user to figure out what needs to be done. With the current state of
things, one who does not know about NTP has to figure out what the hell NTP is
in the first place, then figure out what is, practically, "NTP support", then
figure out what kind of package would provide the right NTP support for Gnome,
then install it. In Gnome, I find this situation rather startling.

Cheers,

Enrico


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-system-tools depends on:
ii  gconf2                 2.26.2-1          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libatk1.0-0            1.26.0-1          The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                  2.9-12            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2              1.8.6-2+b1        The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.2.14-3          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.80-4            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libfontconfig1         2.6.0-4           generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6           2.3.9-4.1         FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4            2.26.2-1          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.20.1-2          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.16.1-2          The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libnautilus-extension1 2.26.3-1          libraries for nautilus components 
ii  liboobs-1-4            2.22.0-2          GObject based interface to system-
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.24.0-3+b1       Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpolkit-dbus2        0.9-4             library for accessing PolicyKit vi
ii  libpolkit2             0.9-4             library for accessing PolicyKit
ii  perl                   5.10.0-24         Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  policykit-gnome        0.9.2-2           GNOME dialogs for PolicyKit
ii  system-tools-backends  2.6.0-6.1         System Tools to manage computer co
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages gnome-system-tools recommends:
ii  gnome-control-center        1:2.24.0.1-5 utilities to configure the GNOME d

Versions of packages gnome-system-tools suggests:
ii  ntp                     1:4.2.4p6+dfsg-2 Network Time Protocol daemon and u
ii  samba-common            2:3.3.4-1        common files used by both the Samb
pn  wvdial                  <none>           (no description available)

-- no debconf information