Marcin Owsiany wrote: > I have noticed you reassigned the #49080 to debconf. However this is not > debconf's bug. I did not have debconf installed on my system while the bug > apperared. I guess it is only apt's fault to execute a program from another > package while not depending on it... Apt does not seem to work without > debconf, so why shouldn't it depend on it?
The thing is, the only thing that makes apt run dpkg-preconfig is if /etc/apt/apt.conf tells it to. This is not the default with apt as distributed with debian. So something has modified your /etc/apt/apt.conf. -- see shy jo

