Quoting David Liontooth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Package: debconf
> Version: 1.4.72
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> On a fresh installation of debian from net-install, updated to sid by a 
> dist-upgrade, I get a string of these messages when installing a locally 
> compiled 
> kernel package:
> 
> debconf: Unknown template field '_description', in stanza #21 of
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.16.templates
> 
> The installation itself is working fine, but this means of course I don't get 
> any 
> feedback on the process. Version 1.0 of po-debconf is also installed -- I 
> don't 
> know for sure which package is responsible for the error. Let me know if I 
> can 
> provide further information; it is reliably reproducible.


Manoj recently released a new kernel-package package with the
following fix:

kernel-package (10.038) unstable; urgency=medium

  * The debconf templates broke. 

 -- Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  Thu, 23 Mar 2006 23:09:44 -0600



It seems likely that you were using k-p version 10.037 and were hit
by that problem. Manoj, am I right?




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