Package: debconf
Version: 1.5.38
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/debconf-set-selections
debconf-set-selections does not work to preseed values that contain the
character '#'. So checking a preseed file that uses a partman recipe is
not possible, as that recipe format utilizes the '#'.
An excerpt from squeeze's example-pressed.txt is attached, it produces
the following errors:
# debconf-set-selections [-c] recipes.txt
warning: Unknown type 2, skipping line 18
warning: Unknown type 2, skipping line 21
error: parse error on line 22: ' .'
Be aware that there might be the following "misuse" of '\' line
continuation and '#':
foobar foo/bar string \
# is this a comment or the value for variable foo/bar ???
According to the manpage, embedded '#' should be allowed:
The data is a series of lines. Lines beginning with a # character
are comments. Blank lines are ignored. All other lines set the value
of one question, ...
Lines can be continued to the next line by ending them with a "\"
character.
Andreas
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
APT prefers oldstable
APT policy: (800, 'oldstable'), (700, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (130,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages debconf depends on:
ii debconf-i18n 1.5.36.1 full internationalization support
ii perl-base 5.10.1-17 minimal Perl system
Versions of packages debconf recommends:
ii apt-utils 0.8.10.3 APT utility programs
Versions of packages debconf suggests:
ii debconf-doc 1.5.38 debconf documentation
ii debconf-utils 1.5.36.1 debconf utilities
ii dialog 1.1-20100428-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii libgnome2-perl 1.042-2 Perl interface to the GNOME librar
pn libnet-ldap-perl <none> (no description available)
pn libqtcore4-perl <none> (no description available)
pn libqtgui4-perl <none> (no description available)
pn libterm-readline-gnu-perl <none> (no description available)
ii perl 5.10.1-17 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii whiptail 0.52.11-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
-- debconf information excluded
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