Jay writes:
> Pretty sure this also affects passwords with special characters. I'm not
> sure what problem the postinst script is trying to solve.
It is transforming this input format
This is a colon-separated list of remote servers to which to send each
message. Each entry
Pretty sure this also affects passwords with special characters. I'm not sure
what problem the postinst script is trying to solve.
Pretty sure the following contraption in the postinst script is responsible:
36 echo "$RET" | sed -r -e ':a s/(\[[^]:]*):/\1=/; ta' \
37 -e
's/[[:space:]]*:[[:space:]]*/\n/g' \
38 -e ':b
Package: nullmailer
Version: 1.11-1
Severity: normal
Tags: ipv6
Nullmailer now supports IPv6 and the Debian packages allows IPv6 literals
in debconf by wrapping them in [ ].
However the maintainer scripts don't cope with IPv6 link-local address
literals having a zone index such as
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