Re: [Gforge-devel] pre9 and debconf

[Roland Mas]

Jim Nutt (2003-01-23 15:04:51 -0800) :

> I'm trying to install pre9 on a woody system and am getting a
> complaint about debconf not being version 1.2.9 or better. Is that
> version necessary or will it work with 1.0.32?

  Hi Jim,

  To be perfectly honest, 1.2.9 is not really mandatory.  But don't
take it as good news, because the required version is 1.2.0, which
isn't in Woody either.  The reason is:

,----[ From /usr/share/doc/debconf/changelog.gz ]
| debconf (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
| 
|   * Added support for encoding specification in translated templates. Use
|     field names of the form "Field-ll_LL.charset". Example:
|     Description-de_DE.UTF-8
`----

  Since we (I) converted the Debconf templates to UTF-8, I had to
specify the encoding, which is only supported in Debconf >= 1.2.0.

  You might try and look for a backported Debconf, but I'm not sure
such a thing exists.

Roland.
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