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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