From jpalecek at web.de  Tue Jun 11 13:56:15 2019
From: jpalecek at web.de (Jiri Palecek)
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 14:56:15 +0200
Subject: [Debconf-devel] Fwd: Packaging problem with debconf
In-Reply-To: <95159a62-1b37-f7cd-9798-9dcc2bc5da6a@mytinydc.com> ((Unparsable
 address -- Missing comma between addresses or badly-formatted address:
 "dhenry at mytinydc.com_^_"))
Message-ID: <87ftogi8ls.fsf@debian>

dhenry at mytinydc.com (Damien HENRY - MytinyDC.com) writes:

> Hi,

Hi,

> I ve this code :
>
> *file /DEBIAN/config*
>
> # Database
> db_input critical matrix/DATABASES || true
> db_go
> db_get matrix/DATABASES
> if [ "$RET"= "Postgresql"]; then

You've got an error in your code here. It should be

[ "$RET" *space* = *space* "..." ]

The first space is missing, which makes "test" not recognize its
arguments and probably report an error.

Regards
    Jiri Palecek


From jpalecek at web.de  Tue Jun 11 15:41:19 2019
From: jpalecek at web.de (Jiri Palecek)
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 16:41:19 +0200
Subject: [Debconf-devel] Bug#930370: debconf: Overriding debconf db with
 file fails with a message "access to disallowed key Filename in restricted
 hash"
Message-ID: <87d0jki3qo.fsf@debian>

Package: debconf
Version: 1.5.71
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

while trying to debug some difficulties with unattended package
installation, I came accross an interesting problem. While debconf(7)
says you can use DEBCONF_DB_OVERRIDE like this:

DEBCONF_DB_FALLBACK=File{Filename:/root/config.dat Backup:no}

when trying it actually, i got an error message:

# LC_MESSAGES=C DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer DEBCONF_DB_OVERRIDE="File{Filename:config2.dat.Lwzkvd}" DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive dpkg --auto-deconfigure -i ../linux-*_"$DATE"_*.deb
... blah blah...
Attempt to access disallowed key 'Filename' in a restricted hash at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver.pm line 35.

It does work, though, without the "Filename:" part. What gives?

Another problem, and the reason I am actually experimentig with this, is
that it actually doesn't work unattended, because it somehow disregards
what is in the config file. ie:

debconf (developer): <-- FSET linux-image-4.19.36-bughunt+/preinst/overwriting-modules-4.19.36-bughunt+ seen false
debconf (developer): --> 0 false
debconf (developer): <-- SUBST linux-image-4.19.36-bughunt+/preinst/overwriting-modules-4.19.36-bughunt+ modules_base /lib/modules
debconf (developer): --> 0
debconf (developer): <-- SUBST linux-image-4.19.36-bughunt+/preinst/overwriting-modules-4.19.36-bughunt+ package linux-image-4.19.36-bughunt+
debconf (developer): --> 0
debconf (developer): <-- INPUT critical linux-image-4.19.36-bughunt+/preinst/overwriting-modules-4.19.36-bughunt+
debconf (developer): --> 30 question skipped
debconf (developer): <-- GO
debconf (developer): --> 0 ok
debconf (developer): <-- GET linux-image-4.19.36-bughunt+/preinst/overwriting-modules-4.19.36-bughunt+
debconf (developer): --> 0 true

I need false on the last line, but still get true (the
default). However, the config2.dat.... contains

Name: linux-image-4.19.36-bughunt+/preinst/overwriting-modules-4.19.36-bughunt+
Template: linux-image-4.19.36-bughunt+/preinst/overwriting-modules-4.19.36-bughunt+
Value: false

Maybe you could help me with that.

Regards
    Jiri Palecek

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 4.19.36-bughunt+ (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE
Locale: LANG=cs_CZ, LC_CTYPE=cs_CZ (charmap=ISO-8859-2), LANGUAGE=cs_CZ (charmap=ISO-8859-2)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages debconf depends on:
ii  perl-base  5.28.1-6

Versions of packages debconf recommends:
ii  apt-utils     1.8.2
ii  debconf-i18n  1.5.71

Versions of packages debconf suggests:
ii  debconf-doc                1.5.71
pn  debconf-kde-helper         <none>
ii  debconf-utils              1.5.71
ii  dialog                     1.3-20190211-1
pn  libgtk3-perl               <none>
pn  libnet-ldap-perl           <none>
ii  libterm-readline-gnu-perl  1.36-1
ii  perl                       5.28.1-6
ii  whiptail                   0.52.20-4

-- debconf information:
  debconf-apt-progress/preparing:
  debconf-apt-progress/media-change:
  debconf-apt-progress/info:
* debconf/frontend: Dialog
  debconf-apt-progress/title:
* debconf/priority: low


From jpalecek at web.de  Tue Jun 11 19:02:34 2019
From: jpalecek at web.de (Jiri Palecek)
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 20:02:34 +0200
Subject: [Debconf-devel] Bug#920567: bash: dpkg-reconfigure: command not
 found
References: <154855875276.2548.11788874521899514965.reportbug@laven>
Message-ID: <376d352b-979a-b774-77fd-bdfac616a2dd@web.de>

On Sun, 27 Jan 2019 09:12:32 +0600 Thulium Equasman wrote:
 > Package: python3-reportbug
 > Version: 7.5.1
 > Severity: normal
 > Tags: d-i
 >
 > Hi,
 > I got the message "bash: dpkg-reconfigure: command not found
 > " when I ran `dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config`. I ran this command
as root.
 > I then ran `echo $PATH` and the following appeared
 > "/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games". I
searched for


How did you get your root shell? If that was by running "su", what you
describe is actually expected. You should use "su -". See
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/460478/debian-su-and-su-path-differences
for more information about that.


Regards

     Jiri Palecek

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From jidanni at jidanni.org  Fri Jun 21 19:08:20 2019
From: jidanni at jidanni.org (=?UTF-8?Q?=E7=A9=8D=E4=B8=B9=E5=B0=BC?= Dan Jacobson)
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2019 02:08:20 +0800
Subject: [Debconf-devel] Bug#930878: fix_db.pl should insist on being run by
 root
Message-ID: <87h88ilskr.2.fsf@jidanni.org>

Package: debconf
Version: 1.5.72
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/share/debconf/fix_db.pl

fix_db.pl really should have a check for being root at the top, else
tons of wrong error messages are produced.
$ /usr/share/debconf/fix_db.pl 2>&1 | wc
     21     266    2854


From info at wex.publicvm.com  Tue Jun 25 16:56:22 2019
From: info at wex.publicvm.com (Austin S. M.)
Date: 25 Jun 2019 16:56:22 +0100
Subject: [Debconf-devel] Did you get this one?
Message-ID: <201906251557.x5PFTrmb022154@wex.publicvm.com>

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From yamaplos at gmail.com  Sun Jun 30 01:08:02 2019
From: yamaplos at gmail.com (Yamandu Ploskonka)
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2019 19:08:02 -0500
Subject: [Debconf-devel] Bug#670654: couldn't recognize image format
 debian-logo.png
References: <20120427164557.8875.42963.reportbug@rancor-netbook>
Message-ID: <CANot=bfKeKxi+RThX6-gcTMP7P5z9eKbNbP+B21A2B-EpejwuA@mail.gmail.com>

reproduced bug multiple times while running Update Manager for LinuxCNC
(wheezy)

nevertheless, the update process ended with success (though it was a real
PIB to set the sources for the update to work)
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