dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 doesn't create XF86Config

[Geordie Birch <geordie@tao.ca>]

on a fresh install of unstable i am having trouble creating an XF86Config.
it doesn't get created when xserver-xfree86 is installed, and
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 doesn't create it either.

everything works fine on three other machines also running unstable.

i came across this before on a machine that had both version 3 and 4
xservers installed.  in that case dpkg-reconfigure created xf86config
just fine after i purged the v. 3 stuff.

geordie.

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