Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Le jeu 30/01/2003 à 19:44, Joey Hess a écrit : > > > Setting up debconf (1.2.21) ... > > > option -q not recognized > > > usage: python compileall.py [-l] [-f] [-d destdir] [-s regexp] > > > > What version of python2.2 do you have installed? > > What does it say when you run -- > > > > sh -ex /var/lib/dpkg/info/debconf.postinst configure 1.2.21 > > > > I was told by some python people that I could use -q after compileall to > > shut it up, if that no longer works it is porbably a bug in python or > > possibly debhelper, not debconf. > > Your python installation is screwed. The compileall.py module in Debian > does support -q in all versions. It's not possible to be mistaken about > that, as the error message included in Debian's compileall.py is not > exactly this one.
Thank you very much. I had python 2.1 installed and with 2.2 the problem disappeared. Seems python2.2 should be a dependency for debconf and mailman. There is, however, a new error message in the mailman configuration but I'll file that as a new bug: s:~# apt-get dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Setting up mailman (2.0.13-2) ... Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/mailman/bin/update", line 31, in ? from Mailman import Utils File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Utils.py", line 32, in ? import random File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/random.py", line 76, in ? from math import log as _log, exp as _exp, pi as _pi, e as _e ImportError: /usr/local/lib/python2.2/lib-dynload/math.so: undefined symbol: PyFPE_jbuf dpkg: error processing mailman (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: mailman E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Bernhard