Re: console-data error

[Joachim Trinkwitz <jtr@uni-bonn.de>]

Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes:

> Joseph de los Santos wrote:

> >    when I try to upgrade my console-data package I get the error:
> > 
> > Setting up console-data (1999.08.29-12) ...
> > syntax error at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Client/ConfModule.pm line 123, 
> > near "goto "
> > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /var/lib/dpkg/info/console-data.config 
> > line 333.
> > dpkg: error processing console-data (--configure):
> > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 255.
> 
> This is fixed in any version of debconf more recent than the version you
> are currently using.

But they are not yet out of Incoming, so you have to get the newest there
(e.g. from ftp://llug.sep.bnl.gov/pub/debian/Incoming/).

Greetings,
joachim