Howdy,
A solution to this problem is in the debdiff attached, it is easily
backported as it leaves support for the old location of laptop-detect, but
otherwise will use the new location. This is also what has been uploaded to
Ubuntu.
~Unit 193
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diff -Nru numlockx-1.2/debian/55numlockx numlockx-1.2/debian/55numlockx
--- numlockx-1.2/debian/55numlockx 2014-08-11 06:08:41.000000000 -0400
+++ numlockx-1.2/debian/55numlockx 2018-05-20 11:44:06.000000000 -0400
@@ -20,7 +20,11 @@
;;
*)
NUMLOCK=on
- ltd=/usr/sbin/laptop-detect
+ if [ -x /usr/sbin/laptop-detect ];then
+ ltd=/usr/sbin/laptop-detect
+ else
+ ltd=/usr/bin/laptop-detect
+ fi
[ ! -x $ltd ] || ! $ltd || NUMLOCK=off
# Enable numlock for USB keyboard on laptop
if [ -f /bin/udevadm ] ; then
diff -Nru numlockx-1.2/debian/changelog numlockx-1.2/debian/changelog
--- numlockx-1.2/debian/changelog 2014-08-11 06:08:41.000000000 -0400
+++ numlockx-1.2/debian/changelog 2018-05-20 11:47:27.000000000 -0400
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+numlockx (1.2-7.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+ * Non-maintainer upload.
+ * d/55numlockx: Adjust to find laptop-detect after move to /usr/bin
+ (Closes: #894481)
+
+ -- Unit 193 <unit...@ubuntu.com> Sun, 20 May 2018 13:44:27 -0400
+
numlockx (1.2-7) unstable; urgency=medium
* Rewrite USB keyboard detection using pure udev (Closes: #757475).
