Bug#910009: exim4-config: upgrade fails when trying to execute conffile difference visualizer

2018-10-01 Thread Guillem Jover
Control: severity -1 serious Hi! On Mon, 2018-10-01 at 14:47:09 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Control: reassign -1 dpkg 1.19.1 > Control: retitle -1 dpkg execs $PAGER with execvp instead of sh -c, yielding > upgrade failure > As a summary, when a pager needs to be invoked (e.g. for the >

Bug#910009: exim4-config: upgrade fails when trying to execute conffile difference visualizer

2018-10-01 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Control: reassign -1 dpkg 1.19.1 Control: retitle -1 dpkg execs $PAGER with execvp instead of sh -c, yielding upgrade failure As a summary, when a pager needs to be invoked (e.g. for the conffile difference visualizer), one gets an upgrade failure if $PAGER contains the program name + options,

Bug#910009: exim4-config: upgrade fails when trying to execute conffile difference visualizer

2018-10-01 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2018-10-01 14:08:17 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > A possible bug might be that $PAGER is run as a program name, > instead of something like system(), which allows options. Hmm... I can see in /usr/share/doc/dpkg/changelog.Debian.gz that there have been pager-related changes in dpkg 1.19.1

Bug#910009: exim4-config: upgrade fails when trying to execute conffile difference visualizer

2018-10-01 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2018-10-01 12:12:21 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On 2018-10-01 10:19, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Package: exim4-config > > Version: 4.91-8 > > Severity: grave > > Justification: renders package unusable > [...] > > *** exim4.conf.template (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? D > > dpkg (subprocess):

Bug#910009: exim4-config: upgrade fails when trying to execute conffile difference visualizer

2018-10-01 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Control: tags -1 + moreinfo unreproducible On 2018-10-01 10:19, Vincent Lefevre wrote: Package: exim4-config Version: 4.91-8 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable [...] *** exim4.conf.template (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? D dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute conffile

Bug#910009: exim4-config: upgrade fails when trying to execute conffile difference visualizer

2018-10-01 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Package: exim4-config Version: 4.91-8 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable I got the following error: Setting up exim4-config (4.91-8) ... Installing new version of config file /etc/exim4/conf.d/acl/30_exim4-config_check_rcpt ... Installing new version of config file