Ubuntu
debconf package

dpkg-reconfigure fails on cron, breaking -a

Bug #658718 reported by Martin
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
debconf (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: cron

$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure cron

yields error:

dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: couldn't identify the package

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: cron 3.0pl1-114ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Oct 11 22:56:00 2010
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: cron

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Martin (wortheld) wrote :
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Christian Kastner (ckk) wrote :

This is actually a problem in debconf, see Debian bugs #596369 and #560317.

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Martin (wortheld) wrote :

as advised in:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=560317

affects: cron (Ubuntu) → debconf (Ubuntu)
Martin (wortheld)
summary: - dpkg-reconfigure fails on cron
+ dpkg-reconfigure fails on cron, breaking -a
Launchpad Janitor (janitor)
Changed in debconf (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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