Antony Gelberg wrote: > They're all good questions. :) It's only happening with X. > > brain:/home/antgel# dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 > debconf: Unknown template field '_description', in stanza #1 of > /var/lib/dpkg/info/xserver-xfree86.templates > > It's backport city, I'm afraid... > > # XFree4.3 > deb http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/xfree86/i386/ ./ > deb http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/freetype/i386/ ./ > deb http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/fontconfig/i386/ ./ > deb http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/libpng/i386/ ./ > deb http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/xft/i386/ ./ > deb http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/debconf/i386/ .
Apparently this backport did not take the po-debconf conversion into account, and just tossed "_Description" fields into the .debs. Not correct. -- see shy jo
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