Further to my initial bug report here is the output of apt-get upgrade running more detailed reporting:
apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following packages have been kept back: wordpress The following packages will be upgraded: apache2 apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-utils apache2.2-common debconf-utils initscripts libkrb53 linux-image-2.6.18-6-amd64 locales sysv-rc trac 11 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/23.6MB of archives. After unpacking 4096B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Preconfiguring packages ... Setting up debconf (1.5.11etch2) ... + '[' -z '' ']' + '[' configure = configure ']' + '[' -n 1.5.11etch1 ']' + dpkg --compare-versions 1.5.11etch1 lt 1.1.0 + . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule ++ '[' '!' '' ']' ++ PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 ++ export PERL_DL_NONLAZY ++ '[' '' ']' ++ exec /usr/share/debconf/frontend /var/lib/dpkg/info/debconf.postinst configure 1.5.11etch1 + '[' -z 1 ']' + . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule ++ '[' '!' 1 ']' ++ '[' -z '' ']' ++ exec ++ '[' '' ']' ++ exec ++ DEBCONF_REDIR=1 ++ export DEBCONF_REDIR + '[' configure = configure ']' + '[' -n 1.5.11etch1 ']' + dpkg --compare-versions 1.5.11etch1 lt 1.3.11 + PYTHON=python2.4 + which python2.4 + '[' -e /usr/lib/python2.4/compileall.py ']' + DIRLIST=' /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages' + for i in '$DIRLIST' + python2.4 /usr/lib/python2.4/compileall.py -q /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages Compiling /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Beaker-0.9.4-py2.4.egg/beaker/ext/google.py ... SyntaxError: ('future feature absolute_import is not defined',) dpkg: error processing debconf (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: debconf E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]