Package: dpkg Version: 1.16.0.3 Severity: grave Justification: causes non-serious data loss
I have pretty much the entirety of the X stack diverted through dpkg-divert so I can keep package dependencies, but still run all my own built-from-git X stuff. This includes all the client libraries. Perhaps not quite what dpkg-divert was designed for, or necessarily ideal, but oh well. Anyway, when upgrading from sid as of about two weeks ago to sid as of this week, the X libraries apparently underwent the multiarch transition. I realised because I went from having /usr/lib/libX11.so.6.2.1 and /usr/lib/libX11.so.6.2.1.distrib, as well as all the others, to having nothing X-related at all in /usr/lib. So, the upgrade, as well as removing the .distrib file as it should've, also appears to have removed my locally-installed file, which is very bad. Happily I could just run make install again, but this could've been much worse, I guess. smcv claims that multiarch had no special transition logic and this must be a dpkg bug, so I'm filing this here. Cheers, Daniel -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-rc3+ (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages dpkg depends on: ii coreutils 8.5-1 GNU core utilities ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.5-6 high-quality block-sorting file co ii libc6 2.13-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libselinux1 2.0.98-1+b1 SELinux runtime shared libraries ii xz-utils 5.0.0-2 XZ-format compression utilities ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime dpkg recommends no packages. Versions of packages dpkg suggests: ii apt 0.8.14.1 Advanced front-end for dpkg -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
