woody apt-get dist-upgrade problem

[Alan Macdougall <saorsa@clear.net.nz>]

I'm fairly new at this, having come to Debian in the last month or so
after using LinuxPPC 1999 very intermittently for a while now.  (I would
still consider myself a relative newbie!)  I've been attempting to
upgrade to Woody over a fresh installation of Potato r3 on my 7600/200. 
(I'm keen to try using the newer version of Bluefish for some amateur
WML development.)

I've managed to download all of the .deb files by using apt-get
dist-upgrade (after using apt-get update, naturally).  Problem comes
just after the packages are scanned, when I get the following error
messages (transcribed):

100% [Scanning packages] Template parse error near "" at
/usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debconf/Template.pm line 60, <Template> chunk 3
E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt returned an error code
(29)
E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt

Does anyone know what this means, and how I might fix it?

thanks

Alan

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