Re: Woody problems
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 11:13:59PM +0100, Stephen J . Thompson wrote:
> On Monday 30 July 2001 10:56 pm, Colin Watson wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Thanks for that,
>
> Any idea when the updates could be ready?
No idea. You could try editing /var/lib/debconf/templates.dat (?) and
turning any double newlines there into single newlines, or possibly
doing the same to /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.templates. Not sure if that'll
help, though.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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