I can confirm this problem when using the Readline debconf frontend
without libterm-readline-gnu-perl installed. In this situation, no
default values are displayed, and hitting enter sets a blank value in
the debconf database. Teodor ran into this problem because $TERM was not
set in his environment, so debconf fell back to a Readline interface.
I should at this point note that when testing this problem with schroot,
developers should be careful that their home directories are not bind
mounted within the chroot. :(
The consequences are severe, so I propose this patch:
--- a/debian/dak.postinst 2009-02-15 01:44:40.000000000 +0000
+++ b/debian/dak.postinst 2009-02-15 01:55:58.000000000 +0000
@@ -23,6 +23,12 @@
db_get "dak/path"
path="$RET"
+
+ # Some debconf interfaces use empty defaults.
+ if [ "$path" == "" ]; then
+ path="/opt/dak"
+ fi
+
db_get "dak/hostname"
hostn="$RET"
db_get "dak/archivename"
--
Tim Retout <t...@retout.co.uk>
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