[Debconf-devel] Bug#636219: debconf-set-selections can't set values (strings) with a hash

[Jan Was]

Package: debconf
Version: 1.5.36ubuntu4
Severity: important

debconf-set-selections treats all characters after a hash (#) like a comment,
but such debconf keys as console-setup/codeset47 have values with that character.
It's a name of a font and it starts with a hash (#) or a dot (.).

Maybe the man page or command line help should contain info about comments and quoting.
Please extend the parser (regexps) to allow quoting or escaping characters.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers natty-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'natty-updates'), (500, 'natty-security'), (500, 'natty')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages debconf depends on:
ii  debconf-i18n            1.5.36ubuntu4    full internationalization support 
ii  perl-base               5.10.1-17ubuntu4 minimal Perl system

Versions of packages debconf recommends:
ii  apt-utils                0.8.13.2ubuntu2 APT utility programs

Versions of packages debconf suggests:
pn  debconf-doc             <none>           (no description available)
ii  debconf-utils           1.5.36ubuntu4    debconf utilities
pn  libgtk2-perl            <none>           (no description available)
pn  libnet-ldap-perl        <none>           (no description available)
pn  libqtcore4-perl         <none>           (no description available)
pn  libqtgui4-perl          <none>           (no description available)
pn  libterm-readline-gnu-pe <none>           (no description available)
ii  perl                    5.10.1-17ubuntu4 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  whiptail                0.52.11-2ubuntu7 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe

-- debconf information excluded