Bug#294098: String found where operator expected at /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure

[Nils R Grotnes <nils@paragon.no>]

Package: dpkg
Severity: normal


After updating the system with Synaptic, the terminal output screen contained this error message:

<blockquote>
String found where operator expected at /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure line 96, near "die sprintf(gettext(""
  (Might be a runaway multi-line "" string starting on line 94)
        (Missing semicolon on previous line?)
Bareword found where operator expected at /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure line 96, near "die sprintf(gettext("debconf"
        (Do you need to predeclare die?)
Unquoted string "debconf" may clash with future reserved word at /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure line 96.
String found where operator expected at /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure line 103, near "gettext(""
  (Might be a runaway multi-line "" string starting on line 96)
        (Missing semicolon on previous line?)
Bareword found where operator expected at /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure line 104, near "$package, $confmodule"
  (Might be a runaway multi-line ff string starting on line 103)
        (Missing operator before dule?)
Unquoted string "dule" may clash with future reserved word at /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure line 104.
syntax error at /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure line 96, near "die sprintf(gettext(""
Unmatched right curly bracket at /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure line 108, at end of line
syntax error at /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure line 108, near "}"
Execution of /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure aborted due to compilation errors.
</blockquote>

The error did not stop the updating process, which seemed to continue without problems.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)