xbase-clients preinst should have failed

[Stephan Herrmann <stephan@cs.tu-berlin.de>]

Is this of any help?

cheers 
Stephan
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dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xbase-clients_4.1.0-14_i386.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Analyzing /etc/X11/xkb/xkbcomp:
drwxr-xr-x   79 root     root         4096 Feb 28 16:06 /etc
drwxr-xr-x   19 root     root         4096 Feb 28 16:05 /etc/X11
drwxr-xr-x   10 root     root         4096 Feb 28 16:05 /etc/X11/xkb
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       270718 Jan 20 16:06 /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>.
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/xbase-clients_4.1.0-14_i386.deb