Another approach, just for general defensiveness, might be for any package like this to back itself up in it's own postinst, and have the preinst look for the backup if an incompatible change necessitates the load... still prompting, of course. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to debian-devel-request@lists.debian.org . Trouble? e-mail to templin@bucknell.edu .