Andreas Metzler wrote:
> ----------
> foo='\\Nblah' ; echo "$foo
> \Nblah
> ----------
>
> Please note the missing second backslash.
>
> /usr/share/debconf/confmodule uses "echo" to pass values to debconf,
> mangling \\ by this. I've stumbled upon this in exim4, with this code
> used for debugging:
>
> printf '%s\n' "Original ${dc_other_hostnames}" | logger
> db_set exim4/dc_other_hostnames "${dc_other_hostnames}"
> db_get exim4/dc_other_hostnames
> printf '%s\n' "Debconf-db ${RET}" | logger
>
> This results in this output in syslog:
> Apr 24 14:38:58 argenau logger: Original downhill.aus.cc:\\Nbar\\N
> Apr 24 14:38:58 argenau logger: Debconf-db downhill.aus.cc:\Nbar\N
>
> To test my guesswork I verified that this crude change indeed fixed
> the problem:Unfortunatly I probably won't be able to fix this for sarge. The printf fix looks ok, but there's always the potential for some kind of new breakage and I want to avoid that. -- see shy jo
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