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and subject line Long lines in debconf DB are not a bug
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Package: debconf
Version: 1.2.22
Severity: minor
Sirs, there are some very long lines in /var/cache/debconf/config.dat
at least here.
$ awk 'length>200{print length}' /var/cache/debconf/config.dat|sort -n|uniq -c
1 246
1 280
1 338
1 3188
1 8151
and example is
Name: console-data/keymap/full ... choices = amiga / Unknown ...
on and on.
On a system near you, perhaps see if some of these are unnecessarily
bloated and post bugs about them for me, thanks
wait. on second thought maybe only the keymap one is wasteful
02:47 ~$ awk 'length>200' /var/cache/debconf/config.dat|colrm 88
choices = amiga / Unknown / French / Standard / Standard, amiga / Unknown /
German / S
choices = Brazilian, British, Bulgarian, Byelorussian, Canadian, Czech,
Danish, Dutch,
usbmodules = CDCEther, acm, audio, bluetooth, catc, dabusb, dc2xx, dsbr100,
hid, hpusb
locales = af_ZA ISO-8859-1, ar_AE ISO-8859-6, ar_BH ISO-8859-6, ar_DZ
ISO-8859-6, ar_E
choices = apm, ark, ati, atimisc, chips, cirrus, cyrix, fbdev, glide, glint,
i128, i74
02:48 ~$ awk 'length>200' /var/cache/debconf/config.dat|rev|colrm 88|rev
(Polish) / Polish / Standard / Standard, sparc / dvorak / Unknown / Standard /
Standard
, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, US american,
Ukrainian
ge stv680, ultracam, usb-uhci, usbkbd, usbmouse, usbnet, usbvideo, uss720,
vicam, wacom
zh_HK BIG5-HKSCS, zh_HK.UTF-8 UTF-8, zh_TW BIG5, zh_TW.EUC-TW EUC-TW,
zh_TW.UTF-8 UTF-8
s3virge, savage, siliconmotion, sis, tdfx, tga, trident, tseng, v4l, vesa,
vga, vmware
wait,
$ awk 'length>4200' /var/cache/debconf/config.dat|tr ' ' \\n|sort|uniq -c
SNIP
perhaps I'm, um, perhaps there's nothing wrong. nevermind.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux debian 2.4.19-k7 #1 Sun Oct 6 20:29:56 EST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=zh_TW.Big5, LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.Big5
Versions of packages debconf depends on:
ii perl-base 5.8.0-15 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbis
-- debconf information:
debconf/showold: false
* debconf/frontend: Dialog
* debconf/priority: medium
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These lines are needed and I see no reason for keeping an opened bug
for things that are not bugs.
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