On 2011-06-22 19:56 +0200, Daniel Stone wrote:
> 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.
This is bad indeed. However, I am unable to reproduce this behavior.
Could you please send your /var/log/dpkg.log (compress it first) and the
output of "dpkg-divert --list"?
Cheers,
Sven
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