problem with bugzilla after editing template

["Thomas E. Vaughan" <tevaugha@ball.com>]

This is a copy of a message that I sent yesterday to the
maintainer of bugzilla.  I realize that he might be very
busy, and so I'm sending it to the list.  I am running
Debian unstable on SPARC, and I am using bugzilla 2.16.4-1.

----- Forwarded message from "Thomas E. Vaughan" <tevaugha@ball.com> -----

From: "Thomas E. Vaughan" <tevaugha@ball.com>
Reply-To: tevaugha@ball.com, tevaughan@comcast.net
To: rperrot@debian.org
Subject: problem with bugzilla after editing template
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 16:04:54 -0700
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i
X-Operating-System: Linux hypostasis 2.6.2 


Everything was great, except that I needed to edit a
template.  So I did.  First, I copied
/usr/share/bugzilla/template/en/default/index.html.tmpl to
/usr/share/bugzilla/template/en/custom/index.html.tmpl
and made my changes.  Then I ran
/usr/share/bugzilla/lib/checksetup.pl.

Now I just get the following:

----------begin paste from browser----------
Software error:

Can't locate /var/lib/bugzilla/data/params in @INC (@INC
contains: /usr/share/bugzilla/lib /etc/perl
/usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.3 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.3
/usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8
/usr/share/perl/5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl) at
/usr/share/bugzilla/lib/globals.pl line 1456.

For help, please send mail to the webmaster
(webmaster@mammoth), giving this error message and the time
and date of the error.
Software error:

[Mon Feb 23 15:53:47 2004] index.cgi: Can't locate
/var/lib/bugzilla/data/params in @INC (@INC contains:
/usr/share/bugzilla/lib /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.3
/usr/local/share/perl/5.8.3 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5
/usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8
/usr/local/lib/site_perl) at
/usr/share/bugzilla/lib/globals.pl line 1456.
Compilation failed in require at
/usr/lib/cgi-bin/bugzilla/index.cgi line 38.

For help, please send mail to the webmaster
(webmaster@mammoth), giving this error message and the time
and date of the error. 
----------end paste from browser----------

I get this no matter what I do.  I found the README.Debian
file, which says to use /var/lib/bugzilla/template/en/custom
instead.  No luck.  Cleaning up everything and running
checksetup.pl again does not fix the problem.  Sorry, but I
feel as though I am an idiot, and I hope for direction on
what to try next.

Thanks for any help.

----- End forwarded message -----

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Thomas E. Vaughan   (303) 939-6386   Ball Aerospace, Boulder