Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 05:41:31PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > > Apparently this backport did not take the po-debconf conversion into > > account, and just tossed "_Description" fields into the .debs. Not > > correct. > > Uhm... what does it mean? Do I need to backport a newer debconf or do > I need to actually fix something in the xfree86 packages? The > "backport" was nothing more than "recompile stuff for woody until it > works". The actual xfree86 packages weren't changed.
You need to either edit the sources to the templates files (in debian/templates and so on) and remove leading underscores in field names, or make sure that po-debconf is available to process them and that you're using a new enough version of debhelper to run it. Or something similar. -- see shy jo
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