Re: svgalib ...

[Richard Kettlewell <richard@elmail.co.uk>]

(The upshot of this is that one shouldn't install svgalib1.deb version
1.28-3 or 1.28-4, but wait at least until 1.28-5.)

>>Yes, but the *.dpkg-new files are not the problem. The real problem
>>is the fact that the config files in /etc/vga are broken symlinks:

Ah.  I'd misread the previous posting and assumed you were listing the
files in /etc rather than /etc/vga.  Now I understand l-)

>>/etc/vga:
>>lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           17 Feb 21 02:46 libvga.config -> vga/libvga.config
>>-rw-r--r--   1 root     root         1789 Feb  3 03:36 libvga.config.dpkg-new
>>lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           17 Feb 21 02:46 libvga.et4000 -> vga/libvga.et4000
>>-rw-r--r--   1 root     root         4715 Feb  3 03:36 libvga.et4000.dpkg-new
>>
>>It works after removing the broken links and moving the *.dpkg-new
>>files back to libvga.config and libvga.et4000.
>
>dpkg will not create symlinks for conffiles, unless the symlinks are
>actually in the package.
>
>Richard, email me when the package is on chiark and I'll take a look
>at it.

I uploaded 1.28-4 to chiark last night, though you may feel in the
light of the above that you can safely ignore it at least until the
point where I fix Peter's problem.

There'll be a 1.28-5 sometime soon - I'll try and make some time this
evening.

-- 
Richard Kettlewell
http://www.elmail.co.uk/staff/richard/                    richard@uk.geeks.org

Eat a conffile before breakfast and nothing worse will happen to you all day.