Packge bug report request

[greg sellers <gregsellers@bigpond.com>]

dpkg requested the attached "bug" be reported - I am a bit of a 
novice so it could be something I did that caused it.

Gregory J Sellers

wyrmberg:/home/gsellers# dpkg -i xbase-clients_4.2.1-4_i386.deb 
(Reading database ... 93851 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace xbase-clients 4.1.0-5 (using xbase-clients_4.2.1-4_i386.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 xbase-clients_4.2.1-4_i386.deb (--install):
 subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
 Analyzing /etc/X11/xkb/xkbcomp:
 drwxr-xr-x  110 root     root         8192 Jan  6 11:30 /etc
 drwxr-xr-x   24 root     root         4096 Jan  5 17:35 /etc/X11
 drwxr-xr-x   10 root     root         4096 Oct 30  2001 /etc/X11/xkb
 -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       274882 Jun  7  2001 /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:
   xbase-clients_4.2.1-4_i386.deb