Dne, 29. 09. 2009 23:39:28 je Johan Kullstam napisal(a): > 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 > > >
Many thanx for the exhaustive explanation, it cleared many hazy notions in my head. Now I know how to proceed. Regards, Klistvud -- Certifiable Loonix User 481801 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org