Bug#636219: How can we quote # in a value passed to debconf-set-selections?

[Steven Chamberlain]

Hi,

Since debconf-set/get-selections have no mechanism for quoting,
introducing one could break applications that already expect to set
values with chars such as:  ' " \

So instead, perhaps change the behaviour of debconf-get-selections to
treat # to denote a comment, only if it appears on the start of a line.

According to the debconf-set-selections(1) man page, that was the
expected behaviour anyway:

> Lines beginning with a # character are
> comments. Blank lines are ignored. All other lines set the value...

So I propose the attached patch.

Thanks!
Regards,
-- 
Steven Chamberlain
ste...@pyro.eu.org

Index: debconf-1.5.36.1/debconf-set-selections
===================================================================
--- debconf-1.5.36.1.orig/debconf-set-selections	2012-03-25 18:09:10.000000000 +0100
+++ debconf-1.5.36.1/debconf-set-selections	2012-03-25 18:09:39.000000000 +0100
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@
 sub mungeline ($) {
 	my $line=shift;
 	chomp $line;
-	$line=~s/\#.*$//;
+	$line=~s/^\#.*$//;
 	$line=~s/\r$//;
 	return $line;
 }