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Comment 5 for bug 25620

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In , Frank Küster (frank-debian) wrote : Re: Bug#338587: tex-common fails to install

reassign 338587 debconf
thanks

Hi Debconf people, here's a grave bug filed against tex-common which
must in fact be debconf's fault:

Norbert Preining <email address hidden> wrote:

> On Fre, 11 Nov 2005, Hilmar Preusse wrote:
>> > Setting up tex-common (0.10) ...
>> > debconf: Unable to load Debconf::Element::Dialog.
>> >
>
>> Isn't that a message from debconf?
>
> Strange. Which version of debconf do you have?

Eric has debconf-2.0 installed (version 1.4.59).

$ findpkg Dialog.pm | grep debconf
usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm admin/debconf
usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm admin/debconf
usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm admin/debconf

these are the three distributions (stable, testing, unstable).

> My version contains:
> debconf: /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Element/Dialog
> debconf: /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Element/Dialog/Select.pm
> debconf: /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Element/Dialog/Password.pm
> debconf: /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Element/Dialog/Multiselect.pm
> debconf: /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Element/Dialog/Note.pm
> debconf: /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Element/Dialog/Progress.pm
> debconf: /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Element/Dialog/Boolean.pm
> debconf: /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Element/Dialog/String.pm
> debconf: /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Element/Dialog/Text.pm
>
> I would say your debconf is broken.

Don't you have Dialog.pm installed? I have (sid chroot):

$ dpkg -L debconf | grep Dialog
/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm
/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Element/Dialog
/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Element/Dialog/String.pm
/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Element/Dialog/Text.pm
/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Element/Dialog/Note.pm
/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Element/Dialog/Multiselect.pm
/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Element/Dialog/Boolean.pm
/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Element/Dialog/Select.pm
/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Element/Dialog/Password.pm
/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Element/Dialog/Progress.pm

I'm a bit confused about the versions we have - there's debconf,
debconf-2.0 (but that seems to be a virtual package), and cdebconf
(which is clearly not the issue here).

Regards, Frank

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Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer