[xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#248910: xml-core: dh_installxmlcatalogs make unusable installation scripts

[Jonathan Dupart]

Package: xml-core
Version: 0.09
Severity: normal

The dh_installxmlcatalogs perl script use at lines 230, 231, 239,
240 and 256 to 259 the chain "\\n" as the end of a replacement chain
finaly used by the function autoscript() from Debian::Debhelper::Dh_Lib.

I don't know how this append (between perl and sed expansion), but
finaly, no line feed are made and a 'n' is attached to the last letter
of the replacement chain, making lines like :

update-xmlcatalog --add --type system --id "http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/entity/release/1.0/catalog.dtd" --package xml-core --local /usr/share/xml/schema/xml-core/catalog.xmln update-xmlcatalog --add --type public --id "-//OASIS//DTD XML Catalogs V1.0//EN" --package xml-core --local /usr/share/xml/schema/xml-core/catalog.xmln
              ^

Output of the package installation :

$ export LC_ALL=C; sudo dpkg -i xml-core_0.09_all.deb
(Reading database ... 71418 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace xml-core 0.09 (using xml-core_0.09_all.deb) ...
update-xmlcatalog: error: entity not registered
/var/lib/dpkg/info/xml-core.prerm: truen: command not found
/var/lib/dpkg/info/xml-core.prerm: truen: command not found
dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 127
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
dpkg: ... it looks like that went OK.
Unpacking replacement xml-core ...
Setting up xml-core (0.09) ...
update-xmlcatalog: error: local catalog /usr/share/xml/schema/xml-core/catalog.xmln not found
dpkg: error processing xml-core (--install):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
xml-core

The only fix i have found is to replace the "\\n" by "; ".

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.1
Locale: LANG=fr_FR, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR

Dehelper version 4.2.7

Versions of packages xml-core depends on:
ii  perl                          5.6.1-8.7  Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  sgml-base                     1.22       utilities to maintain SGML catalog