when I wrote:
>> Looks like some package is violating Debian Policy, and unpacked >> itself into /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults. >> >> Can you mail this list the output of: >> >> dpkg -S usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults >> >> please? > > >OK - here it is... > > ######## debian:~ 1---> dpkg -S usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults > xcontrib, xcontrib: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Xgc > xcontrib, xcontrib: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XLoad > xcontrib, xcontrib: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Xmessage > xcontrib, xcontrib: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XCalc > xsm: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults > xcontrib, xcontrib: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Xditview-chrtr > xcontrib, xcontrib: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Xedit > xcontrib, xcontrib: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Xditview > xcontrib, xcontrib: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XCalc-color > xcontrib, xcontrib: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XFontSel > xsm: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XSm > xcontrib, xcontrib: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Xman > xcontrib, xcontrib: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Viewres > ######## debian:~ 2---> ...I should also have mentioned that I found another directory named app-defaults within /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults (ie. an /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/app-defaults) so I did the following and the installation now appears to have completed: mv /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaultsXXX mv /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaultsXXX/app-defaults /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults ...so it could be the case that some script is trying to create the directory in question by saying something like mv .../someStagingDirectory/app-defaults /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults without checking if something by that name already exists.
