Bug#458301: xbase-clients: /usr/bin/xrdb is missing

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Jeff Stevens wrote:
> Package: xbase-clients
> Version: 1:7.2.ds2-2
> Severity: normal
>
> Did an 'aptitude update' and 'aptitude dist-upgrade' followed by a reboot to examine a piece of hardware.  Upon logging in to a gnome session I received an error 'xrdb command not found; X resource not merged.'.  Looked at local filesystem and xrdb was indeed missing.  Version 7.2.ds2-2 of xbase-clients was installed.  'dpkg -L xbase-clients | grep xrdb' came up with one xrdb related file, but it wasn't /usr/bin/xrdb.  I manually installed the same version of xbase-clients using 'dpkg -i' and /usr/bin/xrdb is now installed.
>
> I'm not sure what happened here, but am reporting it none the less.  I see that xbase-clients_7.2.ds2-2_i386.deb does indeed contain xrdb and it is installed properly using dpkg.  It's possible that there was an install problem when xbase-clients was last updated by aptitude.  I don't know.  This bug can probably be closed upon receipt.  I just wanted to note the issue in case it becomes an issue on other systems.
>   

Maybe caused by the fact that xbase-clients has been split into several 
x11-* packages (x11-xserver-utils now contains xrdb). xbase-clients is 
now a dummy package depending on all the other ones (in unstable). Maybe 
you installed some of this split and then partially removed/reverted 
some stuff ? Looking at /var/log/dpkg.log or /var/log/aptitude and 
searching x11- or xbase-clients might help find out what happened.

Brice