[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#884259: mailman3-suite: postinst fails to finish due to password/keys containing '/'

[Stephen Rothwell]

Package: mailman3-suite
Version: 0+20170523-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?

Trying to install mailman3-suite

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?

aptitude install mailman3

   * What was the outcome of this action?

The postinst for mailman3-suite reported an error with "sed" and then hung

   * What outcome did you expect instead?

I expected the package to install correctly.

To make the postinst complete, I changed the 'sed' lines to use '|'
instead of '/' in their 's' expressions in the following invocation
(base64 will never produce '|' characters):

    # Set custom settings in settings_local.py
    sed -i -e "s|^\(\s*SECRET_KEY\s*=\s*'\)\S\+\('\s*\)$|\1$secretkey\2|" \
           -e "s|^\(\s*MAILMAN_REST_API_PASS\s*=\s*'\)\S\+\('\s*\)|\1$restapipass\2|" \
           -e "s|^\(\s*MAILMAN_ARCHIVER_KEY\s*=\s*'\)\S\+\('\s*\)|\1$archiverkey\2|" \
           -e "s|^\(\s*EMAILNAME\s*=\s*'\)\S\+\('\s*\)|\1$emailname\2|" \
           $settings_local_new

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.11.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages mailman3-suite depends on:
ii  dbconfig-pgsql            2.0.9
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]     1.5.65
ii  lsb-base                  9.20170808
ii  mailman3-core             3.1.0-6
ii  node-less                 1.6.3~dfsg-2
ii  python                    2.7.14-1
ii  python-django-hyperkitty  1.1.4-2
ii  python-django-postorius   1.1.0-1
ii  python-psycopg2           2.7.3-1
ii  python-whoosh             2.7.4+git6-g9134ad92-1
ii  ruby-sass                 3.4.23-1
ii  ucf                       3.0036
ii  uwsgi                     2.0.15-10
ii  uwsgi-plugin-python       2.0.15-10

Versions of packages mailman3-suite recommends:
ii  libapache2-mod-proxy-uwsgi  2.0.15-10
ii  postgresql                  10+188

mailman3-suite suggests no packages.

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/cron.d/mailman3-suite changed [not included]

-- debconf information:
  mailman3-suite/pgsql/admin-user: postgres
  mailman3-suite/internal/skip-preseed: false
  mailman3-suite/pgsql/authmethod-admin: ident
* mailman3-suite/remote/host: localhost
  mailman3-suite/remote/newhost: localhost
  mailman3-suite/restart-webserver: true
  mailman3-suite/emailname: ozlabs.org
  mailman3-suite/purge: false
  mailman3-suite/db/app-user: mailman3suite at localhost
* mailman3-suite/dbconfig-install: true
  mailman3-suite/pgsql/method: TCP/IP
  mailman3-suite/remote/port:
  mailman3-suite/install-error: abort
  mailman3-suite/missing-db-package-error: abort
  mailman3-suite/pgsql/no-empty-passwords:
  mailman3-suite/upgrade-backup: true
  mailman3-suite/superuser-mail: root at localhost
  mailman3-suite/pgsql/changeconf: false
  mailman3-suite/dbconfig-reinstall: false
  mailman3-suite/remove-error: abort
  mailman3-suite/reconfigure-webserver: apache2
  mailman3-suite/pgsql/authmethod-user: password
  mailman3-suite/dbconfig-remove: true
  mailman3-suite/superuser-name: admin
  mailman3-suite/database-type: pgsql
  mailman3-suite/internal/reconfiguring: false
  mailman3-suite/db/dbname: mailman3suite
  mailman3-suite/upgrade-error: abort
  mailman3-suite/pgsql/manualconf:
  mailman3-suite/passwords-do-not-match:
  mailman3-suite/dbconfig-upgrade: true


-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell