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

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 05:11:04PM +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 07:50:33PM -0700, peter at easthope.ca wrote:
> >    I used aptitude to update the system.
> 
> 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

Agreed, this would be good to check.

> >    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)?
> >    Aptitude was OK but reported this.
> >    debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed
> 
> The message is not from aptitude, nor from apt-utils, it is from
> debconf as the prefix indicates, but no worries, as that is hard to
> know if you don't know how they all interact. It "just" means
> that we can't leave the bugreport against apt-utils as it wasn't
> really involved.
> 
> I am therefore reassigning to debconf as they might know what might
> have lead to this message provided you can give some further details
> about your situation.

The specific check here is whether the apt-extracttemplates program is
found on $PATH.  What does "command -v apt-extracttemplates" say?

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Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson at debian.org]