Bug#247849: fails to install

[frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster)]

tags 247849 - sid
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Hi Rodrigo, hi Joey

Rodrigo Real <rreal@inf.ufrgs.br> wrote:

> Hi
>
> sorry, a missed some lines...
>
> I installed the package by changing the line which shows this problem:
>
> Instalando tetex-extra (2.0.2-8) ...
> Can't call method "description" on an undefined value at 
> /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Question.pm line 76, <GEN0> line 1.
>
> I changed the line to 'return 0' and could install the package. I don't 
> know if this bug is really from tetex-extra, but it seems so.

tetex-extra does not use debconf at all, so this is strange. Could you
give us more of the context, say 10 lines before and 5 after the error
message? 

>From which version are you upgrading? 

Joey, did you ever hear about such an error?

Regards, frank

P.S. Why on earth did you set the tag "sid", which means

,----
| This bug particularly applies to an architecture that is currently
| unreleased (that is, in the sid distribution).
`----

while tetex-extra is architecture "all"?

-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie