Qouting debconf-devel.7

    Avoid outputting anything to stdout in your postinst, since 
    that can confuse debconf, and postinst should not be verbose 
    anyway. Output to stderr is ok, if you must.


--- portmap.postinst    2009-08-10 01:18:51.000000000 +0100 
+++ portmap.postinst    2009-08-21 13:46:23.000000000 +0100
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 if [ "$1" = "configure" ] && [ -n "$2" ] &&
   dpkg --compare-versions "$2" lt 5-3; then
        err=$( update-rc.d -f portmap remove 2>&1 > /dev/null ) || {
-               echo "$err" >&2
+               echo "$err" >2
                exit 1
        }
 fi
@@ -78,13 +78,15 @@


   else
-      echo "Portmap options have already been configured in 
$CONFFILE"
-      echo "This script will not modify it, please edit this file 
manually."
+      echo "Portmap options have already been configured in "   \
+           "$CONFFILE. This script will not modify it, please " \
+           "edit this file manually." >2
   fi
 fi

 if [ ! -e "$CONFFILE" ] && [ "$1" = "reconfigure" ] ; then
-       echo "Cannot reconfigure portmap since $CONFFILE has been 
manually re
moved by the admin"
+       echo "Cannot reconfigure portmap since $CONFFILE has "  \
+             "been manually removed by the admin." >2
 fi

 db_stop

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