ddclient dpkg-configure with "select hostnames from list" fails

[Ben Kuhn]

Binary package hint: synaptic

Attempting to install the package "ddclient", I chose when prompted to select the hostnames to update with ddclient from an auto-generated list. Unfortunately the list-selection program failed miserably and spat out a garbage list with either blank entries or broken HTML. I believe it failed to parse the retrieved list correctly.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Nov 16 20:29:54 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/synaptic
Package: synaptic 0.62.7ubuntu6
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: synaptic
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686