Thanks for that, Any idea when the updates could be ready?
Regards, Stephen. On Monday 30 July 2001 10:56 pm, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 10:48:15PM +0100, Stephen J . Thompson wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I have just attempted to upgrade from stable to testing and I have > > received the following error: > > > > [Scanning packages]Template parse error near "" at > > /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm line 60, <TEMPLATES> chunk 2. > > E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt returned an error code > > (29) > > [...] > > > Anyone seen this before? Should this be passed on to the developers? > > It's OK - that one's been noticed, Joey tracked it down, and is being > fixed. The problem was that some packages were using a syntax in their > debconf template files that newer debconf understands but the version in > stable didn't. The bugs have been filed with severity 'grave', so > they'll be fixed before the next release.
