Jay <j...@yahoo.com> 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 contains a remote host name or address followed by
an optional protocol string 'host protocol'. The protocol name defaults
to smtp, and may be followed by command-line arguments for that module.
.
Examples:
.
smarthost
smarthost smtp --port=10025
mail.example.com smtp --user=foo --pass=bar
192.168.1.254 qmqp
[fe80::5054:ff:fef4:ef81] smtp
Into a syntax compatible with /etc/nullmailer/remotes
(see remotes(5)).
I didn't write that sed snippet, but I guess the intent is to stick to
posix tools to minimized dependencies.
I suspect part of the answer is not to use : as an input separator.
Apparently debconf can handle multiline strings directly using
"debconf-escape", so maybe that can replace the broken sed.
