[Debconf-devel] Bug#1087523: debconf: Move to /usr/lib/apt/apt-extracttemplates

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Nov 14, 2024 at 06:58:46PM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> APT 2.9.11 moves the apt-extracttemplates program from /usr/bin
> to /usr/lib/apt (apt's libexec directory) as part of moving it
> to the main `apt` package, where it can now be utilized by
> every installation without needing to install apt-utils.
> 
> The `apt-utils` package retains a compatibility symlink with
> man pages.
> 
> Please update your code to the new file path and change any
> apt-utils dependency to apt (>= 2.9.11~), or keep a fall back
> and use apt (>= 2.9.11~) | apt-utils.

Will do, using the fallback approach since dpkg-preconfigure needs to be
pretty conservative.

By the way, I noticed that the symlink target is
"/lib/apt/apt-extracttemplates".  Probably doesn't matter in this
usrmerged world, but it looked a bit odd to me.

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