On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 01:27:44PM -0600, Chad C. Walstrom wrote: > On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 10:42:18PM -0600, Dan Drake wrote: > > I tried another upgrade, and this time it asked me if I wanted to take > > care of that config file myself (I said "yes!!"). > > Yes, Debian is an evolving creature, debconf in particular. I don't think Dan's problem had anything to do with debconf, but rather with the woody/sid X servers which don't seem to care if you have a working XF896Config or not, but instead want to ask you some questions (which do, admittedly, end up in debconf's database, but that doesn't make it a debconf issue), then blow away the old config and replace it with a newly-generated one. Potentially good for new installs, but potentially bad for upgrades to systems which already have X up and running. -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius Innocence is no protection when governments go bad. - Tom Swiss