On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 12:08:40 -0600, "Monique Y. Herman" <spam@bounceswoosh.org> wrote: > On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 at 17:26 GMT, Rob Weir penned: > > > > Yes, it is a very old bug, which hasn't been fixed in stable. Bug > > #120247 however contains a workaround that will get the package off > > your machine neatly. > > > > Hasn't been fixed in unstable, either. > > It hadn't occurred to me to look in the bug report records for a > workaround. This did it. Thanks so much! The bug tracking system is an excellent resource to fixing these types of problems. Say for example if a package is rendered uninstallable because of a borked postinst script, someone has usually, within a short amount of time, filed a bug into the BTS along with a nicely constructed patch/set of directions. Plus, the debian bts is far superior to any other bug tracking system, imho. -- scott c. linnenbringer | sl@panix.com http://www.panix.com/~sl | sl@moslug.org jabber: sl@theoretic.com | irc: Jawoota
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