[Debconf-devel] Bug#682959: debconf: DbDriver "di_questions": mkdir :No such file or directory [WORKAROUND]

[Eike Lantzsch]

Package: debconf-utils
Version: 1.5.55
Followup-For: Bug #682959

Dear Maintainer,

On Wheezy the following script works fine:

#! /bin/bash
debconf-copydb configdb newbackup --config=Name:newbackup --config=Driver:File
--config=Filename:debconf-backup_`date -I`.dat

On Jessie/Testing I get the following error:

Use of uninitialized value $directory in -d at
/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/File.pm line 43.
Use of uninitialized value $directory in concatenation (.) or string at
/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/File.pm line 44.
debconf: DbDriver "newbackup": mkdir :No such file or directory

Comparing /usr/share/perl5/debconf/DbDriver/File.pm of Wheezy with the same
file in Jessie shows that
the file is missing some lines between line 40 and 44.

I copied File.pm from Wheezy to my Jessie installation and low and behold - the
debconf backup script works again.

Seems to be an upstream problem.
Maybe this can make it still into Jessie while it's frozen.

Thank you for your time
Eike Lantzsch
ZP6CGE



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.18.0-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
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