Package: debconf Version: 1.5.11etch2 Severity: normal Tags: patch The debconf-set-selections script does not handle multiple whitespaces directly before $content in the input correctly. Using a file with the following content will not give an error, but will be ignored it seems: beep beep/suid_option select not suid at all
Note: there are two spaces before the '$content' and debconf-set-selection will take all but one whitespace to be part of $content: # debconf-set-selections -v beep.preseed info: Trying to set 'beep/suid_option' [select] to ' not suid at all' This can be easily fixed with this patch: 125c125 < my ($owner, $label, $type, $content) = /^\s*(\S+)\s+(\S+)\s+(\S+)(?:\s(.*))?/; --- > my ($owner, $label, $type, $content) = > /^\s*(\S+)\s+(\S+)\s+(\S+)(?:\s+(.*))?/; HTH Hendrik Jaeger -- An artist should be fit for the best society and keep out of it.
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