Re: Help!! inetd refuses to start with the new netbase package
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Anthony Towns wrote:
> The workaround was for a different bug, I believe this is more to do
> with the fact that debconf has been updated and netbase's postinst
> hasn't.
>
> dpkg --purge debconf; dpkg -i netbase*.deb # ought to work, but some
> other
> packages already depend on debconf, so that's not necessarily possible.
>
> As something of an aside, I really do wonder if we should have packages
> depending on debconf already (or even for potato). It's approaching
> having
> a stable API, but it's not there yet.
Obviousely debconf was cousing the problem because I've got warnings
about old debconf in the install process.
Do you think that my serious problems with auctex also were caused
by debconf? I didn't reported it yet but I was completely unable
to install auctex as well as to purge it (... is in a really bad
state ...) I had to remove all auctex files and edit the database
by hand to get rid of the package :-(. (I could live without it
for one or two weeks, but I hope this problem could be solved soon.)
I'm really unsure if I should file a bug report against auctex or
debconf.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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