Carlos Carvalho writes ("dpkg 1.1.3 and sysvinit-2.59-2.deb"):
> [ tale of trying to use various ELF stuff from the unstable
> tree on an a.out system ]
I'm not surprised you had problems. We're not designing things to
support this.
Sorry, but if you want the stuff from the unstable tree you'll have to
come into ELF land with us.
Ian.