Description: Upon loading Synaptic Package Manager a prompt appears advising of the following: "You have 2 broken packages on your system! Use the "Broken filter" to locate them" (an option to press ok to clear the message is present) When attempting to fix the broken packages by selecting edit then fix broken packages, then submitting apply... A confirmation message appears prompting to apply the removal of 1285 packages which include 17 essential packages and recovering 3467 mb of space. The packages that are coming up as broken are the following: filesystem 3.2.fc17 - The basic directory layout for a Linux system. setup 2.8.48-1.fc17 - A set of system configuration and setup files. Version of Synaptic: synaptic-0.57.2-27.fc17.x86_64 installed on Fedora 17 Beefy Miracle 3.4.0-1.fc17.x86_64 By following through with the uninstall this would most certainly leave a system unusable as critical system files would be removed. The state of this package is dangerous for anyone who attempts to fix the broken packages and does not read the details presented.
This affects me as well on Fedora 18-Alpha.
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Fedora 17 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2013-07-30. Fedora 17 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.