Re: Woody problems
I seem to recall seeing a recommendation to install the testing version
of debconf and then rerun the dist-upgrade.
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 11:13:59PM +0100, Stephen J. Thompson wrote:
> 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.
>
>
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