I ran into this and believe I have found the root cause. In update-
default-ispell, this logic is wrong:
# Question is empty, but $class elements are installed. Two possibilities.
if ( -x "/usr/bin/apt-extracttemplates" ){
# apt-utils is installed. Other possibility is debconf database corruption.
Just because apt-utils is _installed_ doesn't mean the templates were parsed
correctly. For example, if dpkg-preconfigure doesn't like the shell that d-i
gives your late_command:
Preconfiguring packages ...
Unknown terminal: bterm
Check the TERM environment variable.
Also make sure that the terminal is defined in the terminfo database.
Alternatively, set the TERMCAP environment variable to the desired termcap
entry.
debconf: whiptail output the above errors, giving up!
So update-default-ispell should not conditionalize on the existence of
apt-extracttemplates to decide whether the database is corrupted or not.
Regardless, update-default-ispell failing in the postinst should not be
a fatal error.
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