Bug#1976: xbase postinst creating XF86Config

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

Austin Donnelly writes ("Bug#1976: xbase postinst creating XF86Config"):
> Although it says you can ^C at any time while creating an XF86Config,
> if you do so, lots of errors appear.  It should say "expect lots of
> errors" or something.

I just want to clarify this (since I was there too):

If you do a new installation, and then hit ^C during the XF86Config
creation which is run out of the xbase postinst, dpkg sees that the
whole postinst has failed and then all the other X packages fail their
configuration too.

Ian.