sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > if anyone here has some dpkg-fu handy off the top of their heads that i > could use to further deduce what's going on i'd be happy to hear it.
DPKg { options "--debug=221" } in a file in /etc/apt/conf.d/ should do (this is untested, please check the details). >> I do know also that beginning with the dpkg version in etch, the Conflicts: >> is no longer required when moving conffiles, it's possible to use Replaces: >> by itself. > > okay. the conflict is there for other reasons as well but i'll keep > that in mind for other packages. But then you should make sure that dpkg is updated first: apt-get update apt-get install dpkg apt #and aptitude, if you like apt-get dist-upgrade # or aptitude Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)