Package: debconf
Version: 1.5.53
This is how dpkg-preconfigure calls apt-extracttemplates:
if (system("apt-extracttemplates", @collect) != 0) {
print STDERR sprintf("debconf: ".gettext("apt-extracttemplates failed:
%s")."\n",$!);
}
But system() sets $! only if the program couldn't be executed or if
wait(2) failed. If the program could be executed, but exited with
non-zero status, or was killed by a signal, $! would be left unmodified.
In such case, you would be likely to see misleading error message like
this:
debconf: apt-extracttemplates failed: Illegal seek
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Jakub Wilk
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