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Re: Problem with the new xlibs deb



Andrej Prsa wrote:
> when updating xlibs to 6.8.2.dfsg.1-6_all.deb on debian testing box,
> aptitude fails with the following message:
> 
> dpkg: error
> processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_6.8.2.dfsg.1-6_all.deb
> (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit
> status 1 /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/postrm: line 886:
> replace_conffile_with_symlink_rollback: command not found
> 
> I took a look at the debian/postinst file and indeed there is a
> trivial naming mismatch (remove_conffile_with_symlink_rollback
> instead of replace_conffile_with_symlink_rollback). Is there a way to
> extract the binary package, fix the problem and repackage it without
> the hussle of building it from source? It's a trivial fixup, yet it
> keeps a bunch of other packages from being updated, so I'd really like
> to resolve this as soon as possible.

Just fix the postinst and run dpkg --configure -a

-- 
see shy jo

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