I have been plagued by this for a long time, decided to do something about it and messed up. Who has kind words of advice?
I'm running Potato 2.2r1 on a P200 desktop. For some reason (honestly, I didn't do it consciously) irda-common-0.9.5-2 was installed, but never wanted to get configured (and I don't even have ir hardware installed). It also wouldn't let itself be removed, claiming that it needed to get re-installed before being able to be removed. Re-install didn't help, so I build a newer deb-version from testing sources. That didn't help either. Installed the older version again, but now things have gone really bad: dselect shows this package as RC**, it says it's in a very bad inconsistent state and should be re-installed before being removed. To make things worse than that, other packages can't be installed now either, because the configuration error of irda-common blocks their configuration. How to get out of this? Thanks for the help. --Hans