Josip Rodin wrote: > That's an annoying but in a way useful feature of debconf, to intercept all > text sent to stdout and try to interpret it as debconf code. I encountered a > similar problem with xinetd and after JoeyH explained it to me, fixed it by > adding a bunch of >&2 to all sorts of commands that would echo something > during installation.
Actually, the problem in this bug report has nothing to do with that. But I've already sent in a patch to fix it anyway. -- see shy jo
