[Debconf-devel] Bug#686071: tex-common: trigger break debconf when reconfiguring a (external) latex package

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 06:36:14PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Di, 28 Aug 2012, Vincent Danjean wrote:
> >   I'm reporting this bug against tex-common, but perhaps it applies to debconf
> > itself. Please, reassign if needed.
> 
> Looks like ... we didn't change anything since ages ..
> 
> I can only assume that the change  in 1.5.45 made this:
> debconf (1.5.45) unstable; urgency=low
> 
>   [ Programs translations ]
>   * German updated.
> 
>   [ Colin Watson ]
>   * dpkg-reconfigure: Fix dpkg-query parsing when detecting which triggers
>     are pending (LP: #1018884).
> 
>  -- Colin Watson <cjwatson at debian.org>  Mon, 02 Jul 2012 15:57:38 +0100

That exposed it, but the real underlying change that broke this was:

debconf (1.5.42) unstable; urgency=low
[...]
  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Process any newly pending triggers after running maintainer scripts.

 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson at debian.org>  Wed, 14 Mar 2012 09:08:49 +0000

I've committed a fix for 1.5.47.  Thanks for the report, and sorry for
our slow response.

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]