Bug#338587: tex-common fails to install

2005-11-13 Thread Frank Küster
Eric Valette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Valette wrote: Joey Hess wrote: On Fre, 11 Nov 2005, Hilmar Preusse wrote: Setting up tex-common (0.10) ... debconf: Unable to load Debconf::Element::Dialog. I imagine that a strace -f of a run of dpkg-reconfigure or any other debconf command

Bug#338587: tex-common fails to install

2005-11-13 Thread Eric Valette
Frank Küster wrote: Eric Valette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Valette wrote: Joey Hess wrote: On Fre, 11 Nov 2005, Hilmar Preusse wrote: Setting up tex-common (0.10) ... debconf: Unable to load Debconf::Element::Dialog. I imagine that a strace -f of a run of dpkg-reconfigure or any

Bug#338587: tex-common fails to install

2005-11-13 Thread Frank Küster
Eric Valette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I (of course!) took the postinst of the failing packages aka tex-common. (Do not assume I'm stupid please). Sorry, I didn't want to offend; I just had a problem understanding your sentence, and that might well be due to my english being not good enough,

Bug#338587: tex-common fails to install

2005-11-13 Thread Eric Valette
Frank Küster wrote: which means that all lines with calls to db_* end with || true except for db_version and db_go. This seems to indicate to me that *if* we made an error with debconf, it wouldn't reveal itself as a failing maintainer script. The full error message is included in the

Bug#338587: tex-common fails to install

2005-11-11 Thread Eric Valette
Package: tex-common Version: 0.10 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Setting up tex-common (0.10) ... debconf: Unable to load Debconf::Element::Dialog. Failed because: Can't locate Debconf/Element/Dialog.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.7

Bug#338587: tex-common fails to install

2005-11-11 Thread Hilmar Preusse
On 11.11.05 Eric Valette ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, Setting up tex-common (0.10) ... debconf: Unable to load Debconf::Element::Dialog. Isn't that a message from debconf? Further the File Debconf/Element/Dialog.pm does not exist in the unstable distribution, especially not in the package

Bug#338587: tex-common fails to install

2005-11-11 Thread Norbert Preining
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? My version contains: debconf: /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Element/Dialog debconf:

Bug#338587: tex-common fails to install

2005-11-11 Thread Hilmar Preusse
On 11.11.05 Norbert Preining ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Fre, 11 Nov 2005, Hilmar Preusse wrote: Hi, 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? My

Bug#338587: tex-common fails to install

2005-11-11 Thread Norbert Preining
On Fre, 11 Nov 2005, Hilmar Preusse wrote: debconf: /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Element/Dialog I don't understand so much about perl, but if I write use Debconf::Element::Dialog; don't I refer to $PERLPATH/Debconf/Element/Dialog.pm, which does not exist? Maybe yes, but I don't care.

Bug#338587: tex-common fails to install

2005-11-11 Thread Frank Küster
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 PROTECTED] wrote: On Fre, 11 Nov 2005, Hilmar Preusse wrote: Setting up tex-common (0.10) ... debconf: Unable to load

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2005-11-11 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#338587: tex-common fails to install

2005-11-11 Thread Eric Valette
Joey Hess wrote: On Fre, 11 Nov 2005, Hilmar Preusse wrote: Setting up tex-common (0.10) ... debconf: Unable to load Debconf::Element::Dialog. I imagine that a strace -f of a run of dpkg-reconfigure or any other debconf command that reproduces the problem would show clearly what it is.

Bug#338587: tex-common fails to install

2005-11-11 Thread Eric Valette
Eric Valette wrote: Joey Hess wrote: On Fre, 11 Nov 2005, Hilmar Preusse wrote: Setting up tex-common (0.10) ... debconf: Unable to load Debconf::Element::Dialog. I imagine that a strace -f of a run of dpkg-reconfigure or any other debconf command that reproduces the problem would show