Bug#231569: xfree86-common: dangling symlink to rgb.txt

[Jon Dowland <jon.dowland@durham.ac.uk>]

On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 03:40:22PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> Well, the file /etc/X11/rgb.txt was part of the package payload
> according to dpkg, so the file should exist, unless you removed it
> yourself.  Because files in /etc that are shipped by packages are
> "conffiles", dpkg will treat them specially, and attempt to preserve
> your local modifications.
> 
> This includes file deletion.
> 
> Please try reinstalling xfree86-common with "dpkg -i --force-confmiss",
> and please let me know if this resolves the problem.

Dear Branden,

This has indeed solved the problem.

Thank you for your detailed and somewhat patient response :-)

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Jonathan Dowland
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