i haven't had a response from yann.  could you do anything about this?
i'm amazed this is still unresolved, considering how serious it is.  
i was luckily able to log in from another machine after the upgrade
hosed my keyboard map.  other people were probably not as lucky.  even
now, i have to do this whenever i want to do anything with apt or dpkg
and have a usable keyboard afterwards:

apt-get --yes -f install ; [do something] ;
	dpkg -i --force-conflicts ~/console-data_1999.08.29-11.2.deb

, which is ridiculous.

thanks,

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