[Debconf-devel] Bug#522255: Bug#519165: also affects debconf

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Joey Hess <joeyh at debian.org> [2009.04.03.2047 +0200]:
> Since debconf's confmodule uses $@, to support being called
> from set -u maintainer scripts it would need to either
> set +u (not very nice since that would also affect its caller),
> or use ${@:+}. But this bug prevents the latter; so debconf's bug,
> #522255, is effectively blocked by this bug in bash.

As a workaround, you want to use ${@:-}, not ${@:+}.

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