[Debconf-devel] Bug#526831: dpkg-preconfigure: work without apt-extracttemplates

[Eugene V. Lyubimkin]

Package: debconf
Version: 1.5.26
Severity: wishlist

Dpkg-preconfigure refuses to work at all, when 'apt-extracttemplates' is
available, i.e. apt-utils package is not installed.

The obvious command is to use 'dpkg-deb -I <deb> config && dpkg-deb -I
<deb> templates' command to obtain needed files for the package.

Please let me know if no one interested in working on this issue, then
I will try to write a patch.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages debconf depends on:
ii  debconf-i18n                  1.5.26     full internationalization support 
ii  perl-base                     5.10.0-19  minimal Perl system

Versions of packages debconf recommends:
ii  apt-utils                     0.7.21     APT utility programs

Versions of packages debconf suggests:
pn  debconf-doc               <none>         (no description available)
pn  debconf-utils             <none>         (no description available)
ii  dialog                    1.1-20080819-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
pn  libgnome2-perl            <none>         (no description available)
pn  libnet-ldap-perl          <none>         (no description available)
pn  libqt-perl                <none>         (no description available)
pn  libterm-readline-gnu-perl <none>         (no description available)
ii  perl                      5.10.0-19      Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

-- debconf information:
  debconf-apt-progress/preparing:
  debconf-apt-progress/title:
  debconf-apt-progress/info:
  debconf-apt-progress/media-change:
  debconf/frontend: Dialog
  debconf/priority: high