[Debconf-devel] Bug#1004965: -1: unknown option error from whiptail

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, Feb 04, 2022 at 09:24:25AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> -1: unknown option
> debconf: whiptail output the above errors, giving up!

Hm, I *think* this can only happen if the height or width of the dialog
computed by Debconf::FrontEnd::Dialog::showtext somehow ends up being
negative, but I've never seen this happen.  How did you run into this?
Do you have any idea how I might reproduce it?

Thanks,

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Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson at debian.org]