Bug#33046: dpkg: severe breakage after removal of xbase
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.1.1
Severity: important
After removing the package xbase (which was already on the config-files state
and had a conffile called /etc/X11/Xsession.options) the
/etc/X11/Xsession.options file (which was actually from xfree86-common) was
removed, breaking the X windows system if you did not have twm, and forcing
everybody to use plain twm with no menu system (which means you cannot run
anything).
I think that caused the breakage on someone else's computer after asking him
to remove xbase (which I thought I'd removed though the conffiles remained).
-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.1
Kernel Version: Linux cesarb2 2.2.1 #1 Fri Jan 29 14:33:03 EDT 1999 i586 unknown
Versions of the packages dpkg depends on:
ii libc6 2.0.7.19981211 GNU Libc: shared libraries
ii libncurses4 4.2-3 Shared libraries for terminal handling
ii libstdc++2.9 2.91.60-5 The GNU stdc++ library (egcs version)
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