Bug#535709: console-setup: Uses uudecode during preconfiguration; depends on sharutils insufficient
Package: console-setup
Version: 1.38
Severity: normal
I upgraded console-setup from 1.36 to 1.38, which pulled in sharutils.
During installation, this happened:
Preconfiguring packages ...
/tmp/console-setup.config.194661: line 401: uudecode: command not found
gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
/tmp/console-setup.config.194661: line 401: uudecode: command not found
gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
/tmp/console-setup.config.194661: line 401: uudecode: command not found
gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
/tmp/console-setup.config.194661: line 401: uudecode: command not found
gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
/tmp/console-setup.config.194661: line 401: uudecode: command not found
gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
A depends on sharutils won't make it available during preconfiguration.
In fact, to the best of my knowledge neither will a Pre-Depends.
- Josh Triplett
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages console-setup depends on:
ii console-terminus 4.28-1 Fixed-width fonts for fast reading
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.27 Debian configuration management sy
ii sharutils 1:4.6.3-1 shar, unshar, uuencode, uudecode
ii xkb-data 1.6-1 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
Versions of packages console-setup recommends:
ii kbd 1.15-1 Linux console font and keytable ut
Versions of packages console-setup suggests:
ii locales 2.9-18 GNU C Library: National Language (
ii lsb-base 3.2-22 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
-- debconf information excluded
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