[Debconf-devel] Bug#636219: How can we quote # in a value passed to debconf-set-selections?

[Steven Chamberlain]

Hi,

Since debconf-set/get-selections have no mechanism for quoting,
introducing one could break applications that already expect to set
values with chars such as:  ' " \

So instead, perhaps change the behaviour of debconf-get-selections to
treat # to denote a comment, only if it appears on the start of a line.

According to the debconf-set-selections(1) man page, that was the
expected behaviour anyway:

> Lines beginning with a # character are
> comments. Blank lines are ignored. All other lines set the value...

So I propose the attached patch.

Thanks!
Regards,
-- 
Steven Chamberlain
steven at pyro.eu.org
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