In chiark.mail.debian.devel, you wrote: >This seems perfectly logical to me, and this is not an uncommon state to >be in. Just yesterday at work, a fellow developer wrecked his >dupload.conf, and the only way I saw to get him a new one was to email >him one. (maybe there's a better way, but I don't know it. purge and >then install again maybe?) dpkg -i --force-confmiss package.deb -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59-chiark.mail.debian.devel@srcf.ucam.org