Bug#606928: tasksel: upgrade fails with debconf in lenny (1.5.24)
Package: tasksel
Version: 2.85
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 7.2
On lenny-to-squeeze upgrade, tasksel fails with the following message:
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Preconfiguring packages ...
tasksel template parse error: Template parse error near
`Description-sr@latin.UTF-8: Izaberite softver za instaliranje:', in
stanza #1 of /tmp/tasksel.template.34760
(Reading database ... 38788 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace tasksel-data 2.78 (using .../tasksel-data_2.85_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement tasksel-data ...
Preparing to replace tasksel 2.78 (using .../archives/tasksel_2.85_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement tasksel ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up tasksel-data (2.85) ...
Setting up tasksel (2.85) ...
Template parse error near `Description-sr@latin.UTF-8: Izaberite
softver za instaliranje:', in stanza #1 of
/var/lib/dpkg/info/tasksel.templates
dpkg: error processing tasksel (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 9
Errors were encountered while processing:
tasksel
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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Upgrading debconf (to 1.5.36 for squeeze) first does solve the problem.
It's obvious that tasksel needs a newer versioned dependency on debconf than
the current one (>= 0.5). I just don't know which one between 1.5.24 and
1.5.36.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.7
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.28-11-server (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages tasksel depends on:
ii aptitude 0.4.11.11-1~lenny1 terminal-based package manager
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.24 Debian configuration management sy
ii liblocale-gettext-per 1.05-4 Using libc functions for internati
ii tasksel-data 2.85 Official tasks used for installati
tasksel recommends no packages.
tasksel suggests no packages.
-- debconf information:
tasksel/title:
tasksel/desktop: gnome
tasksel/first:
tasksel/tasks: Mail server
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