Re: Bug#300159: tetex-extra: Fails to install (debconf-loadtemplates: command not found)

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 18.03.05 Frank Küster (frank@debian.org) wrote:
> Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:

Hi *

> > The command is called usr/bin/debconf-loadtemplate and is contained
> > in debconf-utils. It is called from the ucf command. As we in tetex
> > don't call the command directly[1] but rather ucf I'm reassigning.
> 
> ucf doesn't call it, either, it just sources
> /usr/share/debconf/confmodule.  And it does that only if the file
> exists.  Therefore it seems that debconf doesn't check properly whether
> debconf-utils is installed - by the way, Miles, which versions of
> debconf* do you have installed?  Please give us the output of
> 
> dpkg -l "debconf*"
> 
preusse@preusse ~ $ wget http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/u/ucf/ucf_1.15.tar.gz
<snip>
preusse@preusse ~ $ tar xzf ucf_1.15.tar.gz
preusse@preusse ~ $ cd ucf
preusse@preusse ~/ucf $ grep -r debconf-loadtemplat *
ucf:                debconf-loadtemplates ucf
/var/lib/dpkg/info/ucf.templates
{arch}/ucf/ucf--devel/ucf--devel--0.1/srivasta@debian.org--2003-primary/patch-log/patch-69:* \
ucf: Added debconf-loadtemplates, in case the DB had been corrupted or

yes, that debconf-loadtemplates is in a if condition.

H.
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