Hi, On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 08:24:07AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Wed, 22 Jun 2011, Daniel Stone wrote: > > Hmm. Seems plausible, but I went through quite a few libX11 uploads > > without losing my diversion: I would've noticed quite quickly, as the > > failure mode (which prompted the xkbcomp 1.2.2 and 1.2.3 releases) with > > my local XKB dataset and any distribution-shipped libX11 involved my > > entire keyboard doing nothing at all under X. > > Would you notice it instantly or only when you restart X?
Only when I restart, but I do this twice a day at a bare minimum (as suspend/resume is broken), and usually quite a few times more than that, as I do all my X development on my live running server. I usually dist-upgrade every couple of weeks or so, so I'd be pretty stunned if I just managed not to manage it until multiarch came along. > > > Do you have any backups of the /var/lib/dpkg/diversions file? > > > > Unfortunately not, I'm afraid. Is there any more information I can > > provide? > > If you can't give us a hint on how they might have disappeared from > /var/lib/dpkg/diversions, there's not much we can do. Hmm. > dpkg itself when dealing with upgrades only uses /var/lib/dpkg/diversions > in a read-only mode and there's no way a simple package upgrade would have > resulted in the loss of those entries. Sounds reasonable. > Is there anything else that uses dpkg-divert and that could have resulted > in this behaviour ? > > Maybe look around in /var/lib/dpkg/info/* for maintainer scripts (of local > packages?) which could have some weird usage of dpkg-divert ? I can't see anything obvious, no. I don't have any local packages; if I did, I'd just have packaged my self-built X libraries with an epoch, rather than diversions. > How did you put in place all your diversions, do you have script for this? > Maybe it did not work as you thought it did. By hand: for i in /usr/lib/libX11.*; do sudo dpkg-divert --add $i; done Seems to have worked just fine since May 2010, and I've not touched it since then. It's a shame there's not more information I can give you. Cheers, Daniel
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