Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: debconf
Before I moved to feisty I was using gnome frontend. Some time ago I noticed
warnings like this during updates:
# LC_ALL=C LANG=C dpkg-reconfigure debconf
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Gnome
debconf: (Can't locate object method "new" via package "Text::Iconv" (perhaps
you forgot to load "Text::Iconv"?) at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Encoding.pm line
65.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Dialog
Dialog frontend is ok. It turns out that the reason was that I didn't
have libtext-iconv-perl installed. I switched to debconf-i18n which
depends on libtext-iconv-perl. It's probably not common issue. Maybe my
tendency to remove unused packages caused this, but does those who use
debconf-english doesn't use gnome frontend?
** Affects: debconf (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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gnome frontend not working without libtext-iconv-perl
https://launchpad.net/bugs/78175
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