perl preconfigure bug?
Hi. I've already upgraded to perl-5.6 on one of my boxes. Today, I tried to
upgrade perl, perl-base, and perl-modules, and received the following:
>[root@~]#apt-get install perl perl-base perl-modules
>Reading Package Lists... Done
>Building Dependency Tree... Done
>3 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 167 not upgraded.
>Need to get 2801kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
>Get:1 ftp://ftp.debian.org sid/main perl-base 5.6.0-21 [840kB]
>Get:2 ftp://ftp.debian.org sid/main perl 5.6.0-21 [764kB]
>Get:3 ftp://ftp.debian.org sid/main perl-modules 5.6.0-21 [1198kB]
>Fetched 2801kB in 47s (58.6kB/s)
>Can't exec "apt-extracttemplates": No such file or directory at /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure line 66.
>debconf: exec of apt-extracttemplates failed: No such file or directoryreadline() on closed filehandle main::INFO at /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure line 70.
>(Reading database ... 19195 files and directories currently installed.)
>Preparing to replace perl 5.6.0-20 (using .../perl_5.6.0-21_i386.deb) ...
>Unpacking replacement perl ...
>Preparing to replace perl-modules 5.6.0-20 (using .../perl-modules_5.6.0-21_all.deb) ...
>Unpacking replacement perl-modules ...
>Preparing to replace perl-base 5.6.0-20 (using .../perl-base_5.6.0-21_i386.deb) ...
>Unpacking replacement perl-base ...
>Setting up perl-base (5.6.0-21) ...
>
>Setting up perl-modules (5.6.0-21) ...
>
>Setting up perl (5.6.0-21) ...
>
(let's hope I don't have to point out the error...)
...and some version info...
>[root@~]#apt-get -v
>apt 0.5.3 for linux i386 compiled on Mar 7 2001 19:25:55
>Supported Modules:
>*Ver: Standard .deb
>*Pkg: Debian dpkg interface (Priority 30)
> S.L: 'deb' Standard Debian binary tree
> S.L: 'deb-src' Standard Debian source tree
> Idx: Debian Source Index
> Idx: Debian Package Index
> Idx: Debian dpkg status file
>[root@~]#dpkg --version
>Debian GNU/Linux `dpkg' package management program version 1.8.3 (i386).
>This is free software; see the GNU General Public Licence version 2 or
>later for copying conditions. There is NO warranty.
>See dpkg --licence for copyright and license details.
>[root@~]#apt-get install perl-5.6 perl-5.6-base
>Reading Package Lists... Done
>Building Dependency Tree... Done
>Sorry, perl-5.6 is already the newest version.
>Sorry, perl-5.6-base is already the newest version.
>0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 167 not upgraded.
>[root@~]#date -u
>Thu Mar 15 01:55:18 UTC 2001
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