Bug#409988: Acknowledgement (xserver-xorg: upgrade from xfree86 sarge failed with 'Can't call method "choices" on an undefined value')

["Martin Dorey" <mdorey@bluearc.com>]

This incorrectly indented, tasteless, dangerous hack:

$ diff -u /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Question.pm /net/gollum/usr/
share/perl5/Debconf/Question.pm
--- /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Question.pm	2006-12-20
11:31:31.000000000 -0800
+++ /net/gollum/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Question.pm	2007-02-06
14:23:49.000000000 -0800
@@ -103,6 +103,9 @@
 sub choices {
 	my $this=shift;
 	
+        if (!defined($this->template)) {
+          return undef;
+        }
 	return $this->_expand_vars($this->template->choices);
 }
 
$

Got my upgrade going again:

Setting up xserver-xorg (7.1.0-11) ...
xserver-xorg postinst warning: Migrating xserver-xfree86 debconf values
   to xserver-xorg.

xserver-xorg postinst warning: failed to infer keyboard layout from
layout/lang
   '--en_US'
$

I've no idea what the consequences will be, although they can scarcely
be worse than a stuck, half-complete upgrade.
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Martin's Outlook, BlueArc Engineering