On Thu, 2015 Feb 19 19:18+0100, Agustin Martin wrote: > > This seems another incarnation of "apt-utils must be installed before > any package trusting it is going to be installed" to properly process > config files at preconfigure stage.
I do have apt-utils in place prior to installing dictionaries-common. In fact, apt-utils is already part of a minimal Debian install :) > Note that a depends will not work here, at the preconfigure stage it > will not yet be available. And when debconf stuff is processed from > postinst it will be done in a package by package basis, thus ignoring > preseeded value unless package providing it is processed the first. I did set the preseed with debconf-set-selections well before installing dictionaries-common. (Is it really approved practice for package A to pre-seed debconf for package B?) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
