Re: Missing Warnings.pm => broken debconf

[Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>]

Andrew n marshall wrote:
> Ah.. yes.  perl was pointing to an old copy of 5.6.  Now I have removed
> 5.6 completely, verified that both perl-5.005-base and perl-5.005 are
> properly installed.  Now this is the error I get:
> 
>   Can't locate object method "value" via package "Debconf::Question" at
>   /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Config.pm line 76.
> 
> This is even after removing the debconfpackage and retrying new apt-get
> install.  apt-get is pulling 0.2.80.17 from testing.

This indicates that you had debconf 0.5.59 or below installed (but not
0.5.60, which is supposed to handle downgrades).

VARDIR=/var/lib/debconf
        cp $VARDIR/debconf.db $VARDIR/debconf.db.old
        cp $VARDIR/templates.db $VARDIR/templates.db.old
        sed -e s/Debconf::/Debian::DebConf::// \
                < $VARDIR/debconf.db.old > $VARDIR/debconf.db
        sed -e s/Debconf::/Debian::DebConf::/ \
                < $VARDIR/templates.db.old > $VARDIR/templates.db
        rm -f $VARDIR/debconf.db.old $VARDIR/templates.db.old

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