Re: Bug#49080: apt tries to execute dpkg-preconfig
Marcin Owsiany wrote:
> I have noticed you reassigned the #49080 to debconf. However this is not
> debconf's bug. I did not have debconf installed on my system while the bug
> apperared. I guess it is only apt's fault to execute a program from another
> package while not depending on it... Apt does not seem to work without
> debconf, so why shouldn't it depend on it?
The thing is, the only thing that makes apt run dpkg-preconfig is if
/etc/apt/apt.conf tells it to. This is not the default with apt as
distributed with debian.
So something has modified your /etc/apt/apt.conf.
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