Frank Küster wrote: > reassign 338587 debconf > thanks > > Hi Debconf people, here's a grave bug filed against tex-common which > must in fact be debconf's fault: > > Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>On Fre, 11 Nov 2005, Hilmar Preusse wrote: >> >>>>Setting up tex-common (0.10) ... >>>>debconf: Unable to load Debconf::Element::Dialog. >>>> >> >>>Isn't that a message from debconf? >> >>Strange. Which version of debconf do you have? > > > Eric has debconf-2.0 installed (version 1.4.59). > > $ findpkg Dialog.pm | grep debconf > usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm admin/debconf > usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm admin/debconf > usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm admin/debconf > > these are the three distributions (stable, testing, unstable). > > >>My version contains: >>debconf: /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Element/Dialog >>debconf: /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Element/Dialog/Select.pm >>debconf: /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Element/Dialog/Password.pm >>debconf: /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Element/Dialog/Multiselect.pm >>debconf: /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Element/Dialog/Note.pm >>debconf: /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Element/Dialog/Progress.pm >>debconf: /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Element/Dialog/Boolean.pm >>debconf: /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Element/Dialog/String.pm >>debconf: /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Element/Dialog/Text.pm >> >>I would say your debconf is broken. > > > Don't you have Dialog.pm installed? I have (sid chroot): > > $ dpkg -L debconf | grep Dialog > /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm > /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Element/Dialog > /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Element/Dialog/String.pm > /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Element/Dialog/Text.pm > /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Element/Dialog/Note.pm > /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Element/Dialog/Multiselect.pm > /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Element/Dialog/Boolean.pm > /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Element/Dialog/Select.pm > /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Element/Dialog/Password.pm > /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Element/Dialog/Progress.pm > > > I'm a bit confused about the versions we have - there's debconf, > debconf-2.0 (but that seems to be a virtual package), and cdebconf > (which is clearly not the issue here). > > Regards, Frank >
Here is my settings : dpkg -s debconf Package: debconf Status: install ok installed Priority: important Section: admin Installed-Size: 1428 Maintainer: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: all Version: 1.4.59 Replaces: debconf-tiny Provides: debconf-2.0 Depends: debconf-i18n | debconf-english Pre-Depends: perl-base (>= 5.6.1-4) Recommends: apt-utils (>= 0.5.1) Suggests: debconf-doc, debconf-utils, whiptail | dialog | gnome-utils, libterm-readline-gnu-perl, libgnome2-perl, libqt-perl, libnet-ldap-perl, perl Conflicts: cdebconf, debconf-tiny, apt (<< 0.3.12.1), menu (<= 2.1.3-1), dialog (<< 0.9b-20020814-1), whiptail (<< 0.51.4-11), whiptail-utf8 (<= 0.50.17-13), debconf-utils (<< 1.3.22) Conffiles: /etc/debconf.conf eb448d7ec3a6258c8601e6b27284b791 /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf 7e9d09d5801a42b4926b736b8eeabb73 Description: Debian configuration management system Debconf is a configuration management system for debian packages. Packages use Debconf to ask questions when they are installed. tri-yann:/home/valette# dpkg -L debconf | grep Dialog /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Element/Dialog /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Element/Dialog/Select.pm /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Element/Dialog/Password.pm /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Element/Dialog/Multiselect.pm /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Element/Dialog/Note.pm /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Element/Dialog/Progress.pm /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Element/Dialog/Boolean.pm /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Element/Dialog/String.pm /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Element/Dialog/Text.pm /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm Nothing like "Debconf/Element/Dialog.pm" in it... -- __ / ` Eric Valette /-- __ o _. 6 rue Paul Le Flem (___, / (_(_(__ 35740 Pace Tel: +33 (0)2 99 85 26 76 Fax: +33 (0)2 99 85 26 76 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
