Doing an installation of sid on pp64, get this error (from installation logfile):
Oct 5 20:29:57 in-target: Unpacking debconf (1.5.73) over (1.5.72) ...^M Oct 5 20:29:57 in-target: Setting up debconf (1.5.73) ... Oct 5 20:29:57 in-target: ^M Oct 5 20:29:58 in-target: 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. Oct 5 20:29:58 in-target: ^M Oct 5 20:29:58 in-target: dpkg: error processing package debconf (--configure):^M Oct 5 20:29:58 in-target: installed debconf package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 29^M Oct 5 20:29:58 in-target: Errors were encountered while processing: ... Oct 5 20:30:00 in-target: Setting up debconf (1.5.73) ... Oct 5 20:30:00 in-target: 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. Oct 5 20:30:00 in-target: dpkg: error processing package debconf (--configure): Oct 5 20:30:00 in-target: installed debconf package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 29 Oct 5 20:30:00 in-target: dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of locales: Oct 5 20:30:00 in-target: locales depends on debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0; however: Oct 5 20:30:00 in-target: Package debconf is not configured yet. Oct 5 20:30:00 in-target: Package debconf-2.0 is not installed. Oct 5 20:30:00 in-target: Package debconf which provides debconf-2.0 is not configured yet. Oct 5 20:30:00 in-target: Oct 5 20:30:00 in-target: dpkg: error processing package locales (--configure): Oct 5 20:30:00 in-target: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Oct 5 20:30:01 in-target: Errors were encountered while processing: Oct 5 20:30:01 in-target: debconf Oct 5 20:30:01 in-target: locales Oct 5 20:30:09 main-menu[210]: WARNING **: Configuring 'pkgsel' failed with error code 100 Oct 5 20:30:09 main-menu[210]: WARNING **: Menu item 'pkgsel' failed.