Klistvud <quotati...@aliceadsl.fr> writes: > Greetings, fellow Debianites! > > I've recently installed Debian 5.0.3 on my other machine and am > experiencing bug > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=515734 > (keymaps messed up in X). > > Now, the suggestion is to downgrade the libxi6 library. I have several > "noob" questions about that:
You will want to know the bad version for step 2. Use aptitude show <package> to print information. Copy the version string, call it <version>. > 1. How do you go about "downgrading" a package in Debian -- especially > if it's a fresh system that's never been "upgraded" in the first > place? With ftp over to your debian repository and download a past version. I just did this on my sid boxen with xserver-xorg-core and xserver-common. I just fetched the older testing versions. There is also debian-snapshot which will give older versions. Use dpkg -i <package...>.deb to install it. The dpkg command will warn you about the downgrade. There's probably some fancy way to do the above with aptitude. > 2. Won't the Debian maintainers fix the issue in a future official > update > anyway? Wouldn't "downgrading" the package on my own accord potentially > interfere with such official update? This is the trick: forbid the offending version. Do aptitude forbid-version <package>=<version> This says you don't want *that* version, but that future updates are acceptable. > 3. How come there still hasn't been such an update? The bug is marked > as "grave" and it probably wouldn't be hard for the maintainer(s) to > force the reccommended downgrade of the libxi6 library in a regular > update? Sometimes bug fixes take longer than you'd like. It's a vollonteer effort. The maintainer has to be available, find a solution and test it, wait for build and then debian seems to release new filesets twice daily. That said, when a clearly broken version gets released, detected and acknowledged, there could perhaps be some automated mechanism to revert to previous. > Forgive my noobness, but I still haven't quite grasped the Debian > procedures and mechanisms. But I'm doing a lot of reading, so I hope > I'll catch up in time. I already know how to open a terminal and type > "ls". > > TIA > > -- > Certifiable Loonix User 481801 -- Johan KULLSTAM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
