Package: xfonts-scalable Version: 1:1.0.0-6 Followup-For: Bug #498189
The postinst for this seems to contain a _load_ of code that seems to duplicate various bits of functionallity that are part of the packaging system. If they're needed (which I doubt) they point to bugs in dpkg. Part of this seems to be the assumption that you need to wrap messages for the user. The error being thrown by fmt would seem to be due to the fact that it's being run behind a debconf backend (noninteractive in my vase) that doesn't define a terminal width. I'd suggest that this postinst (and the others that contain all the same baggage) need a code review, and that the same result could be better achieved by use of a few debconf calls, with the added bonus that the warning messages could then be templates and so would get translated. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (501, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages xfonts-scalable depends on: ii xfonts-utils 1:7.4+1 X Window System font utility progr xfonts-scalable recommends no packages. Versions of packages xfonts-scalable suggests: ii tightvncserver [xserver] 1.3.9-4 virtual network computing server s ii xserver-xorg-core [xserver] 2:1.4.2-9 Xorg X server - core server -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org