David Nusinow wrote: > Right, I don't like it but I don't have a clean fix for it yet. The reason > being that x11-common didn't exist in sarge so I can't simply check for an > upgrade. Ideally I would look for xserver-common being on the system and > put the note up in that case, but that package should be removed prior to > x11-common's preinst being run due to the conflicts line.
If you don't mind depending on people upgrading with apt (rather than using dpkg directly), you could do the check in the config script, which will run before anything is removed in a dist-upgrade. -- see shy jo
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