Re: Debconf broken?!

[Jon Eisenstein <jeisen@mindspring.com>]

> > /usr/share/debconf/confmodule: Bourne shell script text executable
> 
> I wonder if this is.. do you get different values from these commands?
> 
> joey@kite:/sbin>md5sum /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
> eea80b71cf6f0bd01413061a9b5198ab  /usr/share/debconf/confmodule

960f69d6969f3dbcd7847edb61042821  /usr/share/debconf/confmodule

> joey@kite:/sbin>md5sum /usr/share/debconf/frontend  
> 122ca4e05ba2b562e9e9b95f7689e0a7  /usr/share/debconf/frontend

Apparently, this file does not exist. At first I thought it was because
debconf was unable to configure properly, but then I noticed the file
exists but it links to a file which doesn't:

dominia:~# ls -l /usr/share/debconf/
total 14

-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         2207 Jan 21 12:42 confmodule
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         2115 Jan 19 19:22 confmodule-debconf
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         2822 Jan 19 19:22 confmodule.sh
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           17 Jan 21 19:35 frontend ->
../../bin/debconf
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         3854 Jan 19 19:22 frontend-debconf
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         1024 Jan 19 19:22 templates