[Debconf-devel] Bug#616007: dpkg-reconfigure cron fails

[Christian Kastner]

reassign 616007 debconf
forcemerge 560317 616007
thanks


On 01/-10/-28163 08:59 PM, Jari Jokinen wrote:
> Package: cron
> Version: 3.0pl1-116
> Severity: normal
> 
> Running "dpkg-reconfigure cron" fails in fresh installations of Debian
> Squeeze 6.0 (amd64), which means also "dpkg-reconfigure --all" fails if
> the cron package is installed.
> 
> Error message:
> 
>   dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: couldn't identify the package
> 
> I fixed the issue temporarily by commenting out all lines starting with
> "dpkg-maintscript-helper" from the /var/lib/dpkg/info/cron.* files.

This is actually a bug in dpkg-reconfigure, reassigning and merging.

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