reassign 700526 mksh
severity 700526 important
retitle 700526 mksh-static breaks debconf
kthxbye

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 01:25:41AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 12:09:35AM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 12:04:50AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > > I need the output with DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer set in the environment,
> > > please (generally useful for anything even speculatively
> > > debconf-related).
> > 
> > Setting up man-db (2.6.3-3) ...
> > debconf (developer): frontend started
> > debconf (developer): frontend running, package name is man-db
> > debconf (developer): starting /var/lib/dpkg/info/man-db.config configure 
> > 2.6.3-3
> > debconf (developer): <-- VERSION 2.0
> > debconf (developer): --> 0 2.0
> > debconf (developer): <-- INPUT medium man-db/install-setuid
> > debconf (developer): --> 30 question skipped
> > dpkg: error processing man-db (--configure):
> >  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 30
> > Errors were encountered while processing:
> >  man-db
> 
> Hm, and yet the code is:
> 
>   db_input medium man-db/install-setuid || true
> 
> So there's no reason why this should cause a failure, and it should have
> carried on to GO.  Time for bigger guns: could you run the whole thing
> under 'strace -f -s4096 -o man-db.trace' and attach the resulting
> man-db.trace file, please?

I found the problem.  Something about debconf does not work well with
mksh-static as /bin/sh.  Reassigning.

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