Bug#658554: Upgrade to 6.0.35-1+squeeze2 failed due to multiline properties in /etc/default/tomcat6

[Emmanuel Bourg]

Package: tomcat6
Version: 6.0.35-1+squeeze2

The upgrade to 6.0.35-1+squeeze2 failed with this error on my system:

   dpkg: error processing tomcat6 (--configure):
    subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit 
status 128
   configured to not write apport reports
                                Errors were encountered while processing:
    tomcat6


I tracked the issue back to the /etc/default/tomcat6 file which was 
modified in this update. In this file I split the JAVA_OPTS properties 
on multiple lines to improve the readability:

JAVA_OPTS="-server -Djava.awt.headless=true
            -Xmx1536M
            -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError
            -XX:HeapDumpPath=/var/log/tomcat"

Unfortunately debconf doesn't seem to appreciate this. I had to reformat 
the property on a single line to complete the installation of this update.

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