final stages of making 32chroot

[Damon Chesser <damon@damtek.com>]

"There is also an easier way to run applications inside the chroot with the 
dchroot. Leave the chroot and install the dchroot package."

root@frakencybo:/etc# apt-get install dchroot
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  dchroot
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 10.4kB of archives.
After unpacking 90.1kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org sid/main dchroot 0.11 [10.4kB]
Fetched 10.4kB in 0s (13.7kB/s)
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string 
at /usr/share/perl5/De bconf/Config.pm line 16.
dpkg: syntax error: unknown user `root' in statusoverride file
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

root@frakencybo:/etc# apt-get install -f
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

So what is the issue here?  How can I fix it?

below is the Config.pm up through line 17.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# This file was preprocessed, do not edit!
package Debconf::Config;
use strict;
use Debconf::Question;
use Debconf::Gettext;
use Debconf::Priority qw(priority_valid priority_list);
use Debconf::Log qw(warn);
use Debconf::Db;
use fields qw(config templates frontend frontend_forced priority terse reshow
              admin_email log debug nowarnings smileys sigils
              noninteractive_seen);
our $config=fields::new('Debconf::Config');
our @config_files=("/etc/debconf.conf", "/usr/share/debconf/debconf.conf");
if (! $ENV{DEBCONF_SYSTEMRC}) {
	unshift @config_files, ((getpwuid($>))[7])."/.debconfrc";
}
	   



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Damon L. Chesser
damon@damtek.com