question concerning new config file has wrong title

Binary package hint: debconf

running dpkg --configure -a, I was shown the dialog show below during the configuration of a kernel package. The dialog title refers to an unrelated package.

(the 'dpkg --configure -a' run was after an attempt to upgrade from jaunty to karmic which crashed midway)

────────────────────────────────────┤ Konfiguriere texlive-latex-base ├────────────────────────────────────┐
   │ A new version of /boot/grub/menu.lst is available, but the version installed currently has been locally │
   │ modified. │
   │ │
   │ What would you like to do about menu.lst? │
   │ │
   │ Version des Paket-Betreuers installieren │
   │ aktuell installierte Version behalten │
   │ Unterschiede zwischen den Versionen anzeigen │
   │ Unterschiede zwischen den Versionen nebeneinander anzeigen │
   │ 3-Wege-Differenz der verfügbaren Versionen der Datei anzeigen │

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Oct 24 17:54:17 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: debconf 1.5.27ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.28-16.55-generic
SourcePackage: debconf
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-16-generic i686