[Debconf-devel] Bug#1038857: Re (2): Bug#1038857: apt-utils: installed but aptitude claims not installed.

[peter at easthope.ca]

On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 05:11:04PM +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote:
> Was apt-utils part of that upgrade or was it even newly installed?
> You can get that info after the fact from /var/log/apt/history.log

Replied to David Kalnischkies that apt-utils was installed long ago.
Not mentioned in /var/log/apt/history.log.

From:	Colin Watson <cjwatson at debian.org>
Date:	Sun, 25 Jun 2023 09:53:33 +0100
> The specific check here is whether the apt-extracttemplates program is
> found on $PATH.  What does "command -v apt-extracttemplates" say?

root at imager:/home/root# command -v apt-extracttemplates
/usr/bin/apt-extracttemplates

I haven't associated a harm with the claim of absence of apt-utils.  
Somewhat odd that no other users have caught the same message.

Thanks for taking an interest in my report.  Maybe not worth attention 
for now. Sometimes an explanation turns up unexpectedly.

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