Bug#389939: selecting KDE frontend does not work because debconf capitalizes the name
Andreas Janssen
Version: 1.5.4
Severity: normal
When I select the KDE frontend from dpkg-reconfigure debconf, running
dpkg-reconfigure with the new setting fails:
,---
| debconf: unable to initialize frontend: KDE
| debconf: (Can't locate Debconf/FrontEnd/KDE.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
| /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5
| /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .)
| at (eval 19) line 2.)
| debconf: falling back to frontend: Noninteractive
`---
andreas@sirius:~$ locate Kde.pm
/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Element/Kde.pm
/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Kde.pm
Choosing "Kde" from the command line of via debconf-set-selections works, but
complains about the first letter:
sirius:/home/andreas# LANG=C dpkg-reconfigure -fKde debconf
debconf: Please do not capitalize the first letter of the debconf frontend.
Choosing "kde" from the command line works.
Please make sure debconf stores its own settings in a way that work, e.g.
debconf debconf/frontend select kde
instead of
debconf debconf/frontend select KDE
regards
Andreas Janssen
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (1001, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-k7
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Versions of packages debconf depends on:
ii debconf-i18n 1.5.4 full internationalization support
ii perl-base 5.8.8-6.1 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbis
Versions of packages debconf recommends:
ii apt-utils 0.6.46 APT utility programs
-- debconf information:
debconf-apt-progress/title:
debconf-apt-progress/info:
* debconf/priority: low
debconf-apt-progress/preparing:
debconf-apt-progress/media-change:
* debconf/frontend: Kde
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