I got this message when doing an upgrade on Woody. I do have few
backports installed, so it's not a pure Woody machine.
# cat /etc/apt/sources.list | grep '^deb '
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://www.logic.univie.ac.at/~ametzler/debian/exim4manpages/ woody/
deb http://www.logic.univie.ac.at/~ametzler/debian/gnutls/ woody/
deb http://lackof.org/taggart/debian woody/chkrootkit main
It seems I do have a newer version of debconf installed:
# apt-cache policy debconf
debconf:
Installed: 1.2.35
Candidate: 1.2.35
Version Table:
*** 1.2.35 0
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
1.0.32 0
500 http://http.us.debian.org stable/main Packages
I suspect not, but is there a way to find out where the installed
debconf package came from?
How do I know what problems my have resulted from this failure?
What should I do to follow up and make sure everything is working?
BTW -- I use backports (for exim and spamassassin mostly). What
procedures do I need to follow when upgrading to Sarge? Will I just
remove those lines from my sources.list?
# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
5 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1593kB of archives. After unpacking 86.0kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main mysql-common 3.23.49-8.7 [17.0kB]
Get:2 http://www.logic.univie.ac.at woody/ exim4-config 4.34-4amwoody2 [177kB]
Get:3 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main libmysqlclient10 3.23.49-8.7
[235kB]
Get:4 http://www.logic.univie.ac.at woody/ exim4-base 4.34-4amwoody2 [783kB]
Get:5 http://www.logic.univie.ac.at woody/ exim4-daemon-heavy 4.34-4amwoody2 [382kB]
Fetched 1593kB in 19s (79.8kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
Installed debconf version is broken. Aborting preconfigure.
(Reading database ... 17229 files and directories currently installed.)
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