[Debconf-devel] Bug#502308: Bug#502308: debconf-set-selections does not handle superfluous whitespace

[Joey Hess]

Hendrik Jaeger wrote:
> The debconf-set-selections script does not handle multiple whitespaces
> directly before $content in the input correctly. Using a file with the
> following content will not give an error, but will be ignored it seems:
> beep beep/suid_option select  not suid at all
> 
> Note: there are two spaces before the '$content' and
> debconf-set-selection will take all but one whitespace to be part of
> $content:

That is intended, otherwise it would not be possible to preseed a value
with leading whitespace.
 
-- 
see shy jo
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