[Bug 1919314] Re: debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed

[David Kalnischkies]

The message can not be shown only if the package is going to ask
questions as debconf would need to extract the questions beforehand (and
find none) for that to work – but it can't do that without apt-utils. :)

Not sure about the stderr vs. stdout, I guess the rational is that its
more important than the "normal" output. In any case, this is something
you will have to bring up with debconf… reassigning there (and resetting
status).

** Package changed: apt (Ubuntu) => debconf (Ubuntu)

** Changed in: debconf (Ubuntu)
       Status: Opinion => New

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

Status in debconf package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  The warning appears when installing apt-utils, with no way to silence
  the message. If apt-utils is required in the base image, it should be
  added there and not be a standalone package. This is a transcript from
  Ubuntu 20.04.1:

  $ LANG=C sudo apt install apt-utils 
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  The following NEW packages will be installed:
    apt-utils
  0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 159 not upgraded.
  Need to get 0 B/213 kB of archives.
  After this operation, 852 kB of additional disk space will be used.
  debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed
  Selecting previously unselected package apt-utils.
  (Reading database ... 688084 files and directories currently installed.)
  Preparing to unpack .../apt-utils_2.0.4_amd64.deb ...
  Unpacking apt-utils (2.0.4) ...
  Setting up apt-utils (2.0.4) ...
  Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.1-1) ...

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
  Package: apt-utils 2.0.4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-65.73-generic 5.4.78
  Uname: Linux 5.4.0-65-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair nvidia_modeset nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.16
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
  CurrentDesktop: KDE
  Date: Tue Mar 16 11:30:26 2021
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  SourcePackage: apt
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-05-04 (315 days ago)

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