Ian> Suggestions and/or sympathy welcome. You certainly have my sympathy. As for suggestions, I would rather see a log of dpkg activity eat up your scarce time than an overly complicated scheme. It was after all a maintainer mistake. You cannot fix all of them. Even Don Knuth canceled the "money-for-bugs" contest. -- Dirk Eddelb"uttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd