Package: emacspeak
Version: 29.0-1
Severity: serious
User: debian...@lists.debian.org
Usertags: piuparts piuparts.d.o

Hi,

during an installation test of your package with piuparts dpkg-preconfigure 
hung and ate all available cpu:

Steps to reproduce:

# export DEBIAN_FRONTEND="noninteractive"
# apt-get install emacspeak
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer 
required:
  opalmod
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  emacs22 emacs22-bin-common emacs22-common tcl8.4 tclx8.4 xaw3dg
Suggested packages:
  emacs22-common-non-dfsg emacs22-el emacspeak-ss psgml eflite espeak w3m-el 
tclreadline tclx8.4-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  emacs22 emacs22-bin-common emacs22-common emacspeak tcl8.4 tclx8.4 xaw3dg
0 upgraded, 7 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/22.1MB of archives.
After this operation, 77.7MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? 
Preconfiguring packages ...
Use of uninitialized value $_[1] in join or string 
at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Client/ConfModule.pm line 121, <STDIN> line 14.
Use of uninitialized value $_[1] in join or string 
at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Client/ConfModule.pm line 121, <STDIN> line 16.
^C

The reason is that you have a debconf question which doesnt default to "none" 
(but to "" instead) and then "" is not accepted as an answer and then the 
questions gets asked again. And again. And again. And again... 

Justification for severity serious: breaks unrelated software, apt in this 
case.


regards,
        Holger

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