Comment 3 for bug 387112

This is pretty odd; Michael, I'd appreciate your further thoughts if you have a chance. The reason Debconf::Element::Gnome::String fails to load is that perl was just upgraded from 5.8 to 5.10, and so all the modules it contains moved to a different directory, but perl-base hasn't yet been upgraded so @INC still points to 5.8. Moving I18N::Langinfo to perl-base might help, although since we're still using the old perl-base that won't make any difference on its own since we don't have a time machine.

Now, as far as I can tell, Debconf::Element::Gnome doesn't actually use the symbols it imports from I18N::Langinfo! Thus, there's an obvious workaround of removing this 'use' statement from Debconf::Element::Gnome, and I'll look into that. However, we're still using the old debconf at this point in the upgrade. Is there anything that can be done about that?