reassign 226496 xbase-clients
severity 226496 normal
close 226496
merge 226496 220713
thanks
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 09:42:39PM +0100, Peter Bortas wrote:
> 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.
This bug has already been filed and fixed.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=220713
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