Attached is a debdiff with a patch taken from upstream SVN which corrects the problem.
** Attachment added: "debdiff" http://librarian.launchpad.net/5840049/dia_0.95.0-4.1ubuntu2-3.debdiff -- Dia hangs while starting https://launchpad.net/bugs/79188 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs