[Popcon-developers] Bug#257000: not installable with "stable" whiptail

[Bill Allombert]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 01:22:34PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote:
> Package: popularity-contest
> Version: 1.22
> Severity: normal
> 
> Eg the installation fails in the setup stage with a "stable"
> whiptail installed:
> Error: Unknown option --output-fd.
> Use --help to list options.
> debconf: dialog output to the above errors, giving up!
> dpkg: error processing popularity-contest (--configure):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 255
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  popularity-contest
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
> Installing whiptail 0.51.6-6 from unstable solves this problem.
> 
> Now I'm not sure if this is a problem with popularity-contest, apt,
> dpkg or whatever, so please feel free to pass this bug around as
> appropriate.

This is probably a debconf bug (popularity-contest does not use 
whiptail itself, but debconf dialog front-end do), but I cannot 
reproduce this problem with a clean woody install.

Could you give more detail on what you did, in particular what
command give you this output ? Were you using backports ?

Thanks for participating in popularity-contest,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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