On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 11:41:04AM -0600, Colin Watson wrote:
> (xbase-clients, rather - your reply just went to me, sorry I didn't
get
> round to responding.)
Oops, hit the wrong key.
> I *think* the problem is in apt, not xbase-clients. If you had startx
> before the upgrade, you had xbase-clients - which means that something
> in the upgrade caused xbase-clients to be removed. A number of
packages,
> including things like xfonts-base and xlibs, conflict with old
versions
> of xbase-clients, but this should have caused xbase-clients to be
> upgraded rather than removed.
You could be right. Next upgrade I will try the debugging output.
However, it is unlikely I will be upgrading another Debian machine soon.
Perhaps someone else on the list will try it, eventually.
Should the bug system still get an informational note, perhaps?
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William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada