perl errors in dpkg-preconfigure

[Bud Rogers <budr@netride.net>]

Sorry if this is a bit OT for this list, but I'm not subscribed to any 
other debian lists at present.

I'm tracking sarge with nightly upgrades.  For the last few days 
whenever I run apt-get upgrade, dpkg-preconfigure complains and dies.  
The error suggests missing quote or sytax errors.  Looking at the code 
I don't see any obvious errors.

I checked BTS for bugs in debconf and dpkg.  I don't see anything that 
seems relevant.  Is anyone else seeing this behavior?  

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Bud Rogers <budr@netride.net>  KD5SZ