[Openstack-devel] Bug#738271: Bug#738271: nova-common: fails to install: Template #1 in /var/lib/dpkg/info/nova-common.templates does not contain a 'Template:' line

[Justin B Rye]

Thomas Goirand wrote:
>>>>From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...):

Earlier, the log shows an error from dpkg-preconfigure:

   debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed

but it doesn't then try to install apt-utils; it unpacks nova-common,
tries to configure it, and gives an immediate error in the first
template it tries to handle.

How is it extracting this template if /usr/bin/apt-extracttemplates
isn't available yet?

Why does debconf only Recommend apt-utils?  How does this ever work?
I'm hoping this will make sense tomorrow morning...
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JBR	with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
	sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package