Hello Joey,
I have not received a reply to my email. I believe you may have closed as "resolved" the bug. I am unsure why, as there is a clear bug in debconf.
Could you respond to my points below please. If no reply indicating why this is not a bug, I will re-open the bug -- because I am certain it is valid.
Please include my email address in replies
Kind regards JG
On 22/04/05 00:31, J. Grant wrote:
Hi Joey,
Thank you for your reply.
On 21/04/05 02:00, Joey Hess wrote:
J. Grant wrote:
I am using a January debian sarge install (see attached txt file) which today I upgraded to the latest versions for sarge. During the configuration and re-configuration post upgrade I selected KDE as the display (my desktop, which works without fault since I installed in January). The configuration only appeared in the terminal, so I assumed it was just a bug in that. But now I see the log below, which indicates the problem debconf is having. any ideas how to fix this problem? Is it a bug in debconf?
I expect Qt.pm is the gui component, but it probably did not install that package even though it lets me select it from the list of options. Which package is Qt.pm normally in?
As is documented in debconf(7):
kde This frontend provides a simple X GUI written with the Qt
library. It fits well the KDE desktop. You of course need a DIS-
PLAY to use this frontend and installed libqt-perl. The frontend
will fall back to dialog if some of the prerequisites are not
met.
Ok, I wonder why the software allowed it to be set to use kde when the kde component was missing? Baffled.
I ran dselect as root, I told it to install new packages, then as part of that process I was asked if I wanted to use kde for display, so I selected it.
In my view, debconf should not offer Qt display if the package is not installed. Or it should offer to install Qt libqt-perl package if it is keen to offer Qt dialogs.
If you don't want to use this frontend, dpkg-reconfigure debconf.
Ok, thanks. I will manually install libqt-perl and see if it then does not have the issue of offering Qt and not working because libqt-perl is not installed.
Please include my email address in replies.
Kind regards JG
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