Problems with debconf, wwwoffle, acct

[Johannes Beigel <jojo@beigel.de>]

Hey.

I'm writing to d-devel instead of filing a bug report because I don't
know which package is the one that causes the trouble..

During the last potato (dist-)upgrade there were problems with
configuring wwwoffle -- it hung and I had to Ctrl-C it.

Then I read on debian-devel about a similar problem concerning debconf
(and acct).  So I dpkg --purge'd debconf, but then wwwoffle's
installation script produced an error saying something like
"/usr/share/debconf/... file not found".  Shouldn't wwwoffle depend on
debconf then?

So I installed debconf again -- and additionally acct.  After that,
apt-get install wwwoffle worked fine.

Conclusion:
- wwwoffle should depend on debconf!?  Or otherwise its configure script
  is buggy.
- debconf (or wwwoffle) should depend on acct!?

versions of the packages I used:
- debconf 0.2.34
- wwwoffle 2.5b-1
- acct 6.3.5-16

Maybe someone else (who understands better what was going on) could file
an appropriate bug report.

Ciao.
jojo

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