[Debconf-devel] Bug#577632: Can't locate filetest.pm in @INC ... dpkg: error processing debconf

[Colin Watson]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 12:30:54PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Debconf can't use perl modules that are in perl-modules, it has to work
> with only perl-base.

Argh.

> I'd suggest this patch as the cleanest fix. Only problem is that
> DbDriver::Stack can fail if the topmost DbDriver in a stack is readonly,
> and this can turn DbDrivers that were at least apparently not readonly
> into readonly ones. I think, but am not sure, that the stack dbdriver
> would fail only if the file dbdriver would have failed before.

I was hoping not to have to double the open, but yes, this seems
reasonable.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]