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installation error after update of "woody" apt source



quote from dselect output:

Preparing to replace xbase-clients 4.1.0-11 (using .../xbase-clients_4.1.0-13_i386.deb) ...
Warning: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit symbolic link points to the wrong place.
Removing.
Warning: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xsm symbolic link points to the wrong place.
Removing.
Warning: /etc/X11/xkb/compiled symbolic link points to the wrong place.
Removing.
ERROR: /etc/X11/xkb/xkbcomp exists and is not a symbolic link.  This package
cannot be installed until this file is removed.
Aborting installation of xbase-clients package.
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xbase-clients_4.1.0-13_i386.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Analyzing /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit:
drwxr-xr-x   15 root     root         4096 Dec 12 23:30 /usr
drwxr-xr-x    7 root     root         4096 Dec 18 14:30 /usr/X11R6
drwxr-xr-x    5 root     root         8192 Jan 18 20:10 /usr/X11R6/lib
drwxr-xr-x   10 root     root         4096 Jan 18 20:10 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit: nonexistent
ERROR: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit symbolic link does not exist.  Either the
package didn't ship the symbolic link (a bug in the package), or dpkg failed to
unpack it to the filesystem (a bug in dpkg).
Please report the package name, version, and the text of the above error
message(s) to <debian-x@lists.debian.org>.
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1


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-- 
peter koellner <peter@mezzo.net>




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