Package: ucf Version: 3.0041 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
starting with 3.0041 (3.0039 was okay), ucf breaks with an error from
the shell interpreter when selecting to show the differences between two
files.
How to repeat:
echo one >config
echo two >config.new
ucf config.new config
The well-known dialog comes up. Select "show the differences between the
versions".
Expected: A diff of the two files.
Got:
| /usr/bin/ucf: 85: local: root.root: bad variable name
(where root.root are user and group of the file).
Also abort of dpkg/apt, possibly leaving the system in a half-configured
state.
Using the ucf script from 3.0039 works fine. A quick glance into the
diff reveals the interpreter was changed to /bin/sh from /bin/bash, and
/bin/dash isn't happy with that line. Reverting to "#!/bin/bash" yields
the expected behaviour, too.
Cheers,
Christoph
PS: ucf --purge config
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.4.41 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: unable to detect
Versions of packages ucf depends on:
ii coreutils 8.30-3+b1
ii debconf 1.5.74
ii sensible-utils 0.0.12+nmu1
ucf recommends no packages.
ucf suggests no packages.
-- debconf information excluded
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