Bernhard Kuemel wrote: > apt-get dist-upgrade now won't install even a single package. At first I > chose severity normal because mailman depends on debconf, but now > totally unrelated packages don't get installed. Unfortunately it seems > reportbug won't set the severity of this bug to critical but I was asked > if this bug is already listed and enter it's number. Should I have filed > a new bug report?
It should not be severity critical anyway, packages break in unstable from time to time and there are workarounds to upgrade everything else. Anyway. > s:~# apt-get dist-upgrade > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Calculating Upgrade... Done > The following NEW packages will be installed: > libhtml-parser-perl libhtml-tagset-perl libhtml-tree-perl > libmailtools-perl libmime-base64-perl liburi-perl libwww-perl > 87 packages upgraded, 7 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not > upgraded. > 2 packages not fully installed or removed. > Need to get 0B/60.6MB of archives. After unpacking 8738kB will be used. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] > Preconfiguring packages ... > Setting up debconf (1.2.21) ... > option -q not recognized > usage: python compileall.py [-l] [-f] [-d destdir] [-s regexp] What version of python2.2 do you have installed? What does it say when you run -- sh -ex /var/lib/dpkg/info/debconf.postinst configure 1.2.21 I was told by some python people that I could use -q after compileall to shut it up, if that no longer works it is porbably a bug in python or possibly debhelper, not debconf. -- see shy jo
