I believe I was running on woody, but a snapshot from a while ago (last update sometime mid to end of 2000) until last month, when I upgraded to a then current woody snapshot. Strange that nothing broke then, it only broke on my latest refresh to current woody a few days ago. It may be possible it did break a month ago, and that I just didn't notice it, but I usually pay pretty close attention to those things when I'm adding or upgrading packages.
Thanks for your help. Evan -- | Evan Harris - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - All flames to /dev/nul | | RIP Bill Hicks - "I don't mean to sound cold or cruel or vicious... but I | am, so that's the way it comes out." On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Joey Hess wrote: > Evan Harris wrote: > > # dpkg -S /usr/lib/perl5/Debconf/* > > dpkg: /usr/lib/perl5/Debconf/AutoSelect.pm not found. > > dpkg: /usr/lib/perl5/Debconf/Base.pm not found. > > dpkg: /usr/lib/perl5/Debconf/Client not found. > [...] > > > # ls -la /usr/lib/perl5/Debconf/ > > total 88 > > drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Mar 24 07:10 . > > drwxr-xr-x 28 root root 4096 Mar 22 01:56 .. > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1934 Aug 28 2000 AutoSelect.pm > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1107 Aug 28 2000 Base.pm > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 28 02:44 Client > [...] > > > I removed the /usr/lib/perl5/Debconf directory, and that seems to have fixed > > everything. The question is how those files got left around > > I wish I knew. You are the third person to report this problem with > files from an older version of debconf being left behind in > /usr/lib/perl5/Debconf/ after dpkg upgrades it to a newer version with > files in /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/. About 10 other people have reported > similar problems, except the files were fields.pm and/or base.pm, which > are from perl-base, not debconf. > > I'm beginning to wonder if this is a bug in dpkg, or something _really_ > weird involving perl. > > -- > see shy jo >
