Re: Woody problems

[Stephen J.Thompson <stephen@thompsonconsult.demon.co.uk>]

Thanks for that,

Any idea when the updates could be ready?

Regards,

Stephen.


On Monday 30 July 2001 10:56 pm, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 10:48:15PM +0100, Stephen J . Thompson wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I have just attempted to upgrade from stable to testing and I have
> > received the following error:
> >
> >  [Scanning packages]Template parse error near "" at
> > /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm line 60, <TEMPLATES> chunk 2.
> > E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt returned an error code
> > (29)
>
> [...]
>
> > Anyone seen this before? Should this be passed on to the developers?
>
> It's OK - that one's been noticed, Joey tracked it down, and is being
> fixed. The problem was that some packages were using a syntax in their
> debconf template files that newer debconf understands but the version in
> stable didn't. The bugs have been filed with severity 'grave', so
> they'll be fixed before the next release.