On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Joey Hess wrote: > Santiago Vila wrote: > > 93% [Scanning packages]Template parse error near "" at > > /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm line 102, <TEMPLATES> chunk 2. > > E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt returned an error code (29) > > I grepped the whole archive the other day and traced this back to three > packages that had templates files that were not usable by potato's > debconf. At least one of those (leafnode) is already fixed, bugs are > filed on all, etc. But none of them are part of standard IIRC, so I > don't know why you'd have run accross them in this test.
You are right... the bad package was `gs', which I also added to the standard system (but did not realize until today, when I was unable to reproduce the error following my own recipe). > You can find > out what package it is with strace, or by running dpkg-preconfigure by > hand on each .deb it was going to intall. I doubt I missed a package in > my grep of the archive, but it couldn't hurt to make sure. By running dpkg-preconfigure on each .deb file I finally arrived at the psfontmgr_0.4.5 package in woody, which gs recommends. The Bug is #106360 (grave), reported by you three days ago (funny :-). Now, ideally I would like to see psfontmgr_0.4.5 out of woody, but I don't know whether this is asking too much. Thanks a lot.
