On Thu, Nov 14, 2024 at 06:58:46PM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > APT 2.9.11 moves the apt-extracttemplates program from /usr/bin > to /usr/lib/apt (apt's libexec directory) as part of moving it > to the main `apt` package, where it can now be utilized by > every installation without needing to install apt-utils. > > The `apt-utils` package retains a compatibility symlink with > man pages. > > Please update your code to the new file path and change any > apt-utils dependency to apt (>= 2.9.11~), or keep a fall back > and use apt (>= 2.9.11~) | apt-utils.
Will do, using the fallback approach since dpkg-preconfigure needs to be pretty conservative. By the way, I noticed that the symlink target is "/lib/apt/apt-extracttemplates". Probably doesn't matter in this usrmerged world, but it looked a bit odd to me. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]
