Bug#226496: xfree86-common: preinst overwrites it's own debug information

[Peter Bortas <peter@bortas.org>]

Package: xfree86-common
Version: 4.2.1-12.1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch

The preinst check for symlinks has the following two lines at line 238:

      errmsg="$symlink exists and is not a symbolic link.  This package cannot"
      errmsg="be installed until this"

this drops the part of the error message that is interesting and 
produces the following noninformative output:

"Unpacking xfree86-common (from .../xfree86-common_4.2.1-12.1_all.deb) ...
 be installed until this directory is removed.
 xfree86-common preinst error: Aborting installation of xfree86-common package."

It should be changed to:

      errmsg="$symlink exists and is not a symbolic link.  This package cannot"
      errmsg="$errmsg be installed until this"

This patch is untested. 


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages xfree86-common depends on:

-- debconf information excluded