The problems you guys are seeing is fixed by an update to debconf that
should be out of Incoming in about 20 minutes.
debconf (0.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
* Added sane defaults if stty -a fails. (Closes: a whole slew of bug
reports people will file over the next 2 days. :-P)
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 10 Nov 1999 15:00:16 -0800
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see shy jo