On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 08:51:40AM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> James Troup <james@nocrew.org> wrote:
> > <http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2004/debian-x-200402/msg00862.html>
>
> Hello,
> Hm. This message of yours explains how (with only very minor
> handholding) the buildds managed to build XFree86 4.0.3 itself and
> does not say anything about #234772 or this thread afaict, because
> #234772 obviously happened after XFree86 was _successfully_ built and
> available to the buildd. (It installed a bunch of 4.0.3-2 packages.)
Well, no, James's message also explained this:
[1] As I explained on IRC: sbuild installs new X library packages,
builds package, tries to remove them, postrm hangs due to missing
argument to grep, sbuild times out and kills the dpkg process,
dpkg gets confused and thinks the library package it was in the
process of removing is still "installed but with no files"... next
package that tries to use that library fails (often in bizarre
ways) because the library's not actually there.
> > In short: it's not your problem, it'll be fixed by xfree86 4.3.0-3 and
> > your build should be retried sometime after that's available for the
> > architectures in question.
>
> I am happy to hear that.
>
> I am nosy though, ;-) I would like to get an explanation what was
> broken and how it was fixed, *if* somebody knowledgble would like to
> spare the time.
The fix would appear to be uploading 4.3.0-3, which fixes the breakage
in the deregister_x_lib_dir_with_ld_so() shell function.
See the forthcoming package changelog[1][2] or the SVN commit log[3][4]
for more information.
[1] http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xsf/XFree86/trunk/debian/changelog
[2] svn cat svn://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xfree86/trunk/debian/changelog
[3] http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xsf/XFree86/CHANGELOG.txt
[4] svn log svn://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xfree86/
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