Re: several packages failing -- is debconf broke?

[John Covici <covici@ccs.covici.com>]

Well, I found out that if I change the terminal type from linux to
VT100 those escape codes are not generated and so everything works.
I did notice that during this upgrade a new version of
/etc/terminfo/l/linux was installed, anyway that something in there
could do this?

on Thu, 5 Dec 2002 14:58:29 -0500 Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> wrote:

> John covici wrote:
>> debconf (developer): <-- [11;80][10;1800]VERSION 2.0
>> dpkg: error processing foomatic-bin (--configure):
>>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 20
>
>> debconf (developer): <-- [11;80][10;1800]VERSION 2.0
>> dpkg: error processing locales (--configure):
>>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 20
>
> Well the problem seems to be this garbage that is being fed into
> debconf, and so it returns a protocol error (code 20). It looks like
> terminal escape codes. Any idea why your echo command would be
> outputting escape sequences when told to echo something like "VERSION 2.0"?
>
> -- 
> see shy jo

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         John Covici
         covici@ccs.covici.com