Re: Downgrade libxi6 -- HowTo? (Bug 515734)
Dne, 28. 09. 2009 13:12:01 je Klistvud napisal(a):
> 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:
>
> 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?
> 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?
> 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?
>
> 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
>
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Nobody? Even just a URL for me to read up on the subject?
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