> > [...]
> > 
> > Are you really sure the space/tab-thing is the cause of your problems? As 
> > FAI
> > uses debconf-set-selections, I had a quick look at its code, which uses the
> > following regex to extract questions and answers from its input:
> > 
> > my ($owner, $label, $type, $content) = 
> > /^\s*(\S+)\s+(\S+)\s+(\S+)(?:\s(.*))?/;
> > 
> > Thus, any number of spaces/tabs > 1 is ok - but you might also want to check
> > your file using "debconf-set-selections -c" to validate your input.
> 
> 
> Ahh, it was the fact that the copy/paste replaced a tab with a single space.
>

Sorry, I wasn't quite exact - it should have read "spaces/tabs >= 1". Thus I
don't know how that copy&paste operation could cause trouble!

Regards,
Michael


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