requested report
Preparing to replace xbase-clients 4.1.0-9 (using .../xbase-clients_4.1.0-13_i38
6.deb) ...
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 /etc/X11/xkb/xkbcomp:
drwxr-xr-x 53 root root 4096 Feb 1 19:23 /etc
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 1024 Feb 1 19:23 /etc/X11
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 1024 Feb 1 19:23 /etc/X11/xkb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 240010 Jan 25 11:44 /etc/X11/xkb/xkbcomp
ERROR: /etc/X11/xkb/xkbcomp is not a symbolic link. The package preinst script
should have failed.
Please report the package name, version, and the text of the above error
message(s) to <debian-x@lists.debian.org>.
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