reassign 84255 debhelper -- Is it really so hard to figure out that apt-get != debhelper? Sigh.
Ben Harris wrote: > At the moment, when preconfiguring packages, apt-get gives no > indication of which package is being preconfigured. This is a pain if > I want to report a bug in the preconfiguration script, since it's hard > to tell which package to report it against (especially if all the > script does is to print a perl error message). A "Configuring > <package>..." message printed before configuring each package would > help. Export DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer and it will provide you with plenty of debugging information. This is documented in several places, including the debconf user's guide. I might accept a patch to apt-extracttemplates to make it write out the names of the packages as they are preconfigured. -- see shy jo
