This is fixed in karmic, which shows this message instead and allows the
user to go back to the menu:
show the differences between the versions.
There are no non-white space differences in the files.
** Changed in: ucf (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Fix Released
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ucf: "need a diff
** Summary changed:
- package update-manager 1:0.87.27 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage:
SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error
code (1)
+ ucf: "need a diff as argument" when diff is whitespace-only
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ucf: "need a diff as argument" when diff is whi