[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#881622: Bug#881622: mailman3-core: uninstallable in sid: sed: -e expression #1, char 65: unknown option to `s'

[Pierre-Elliott Bécue]

Le lundi 13 novembre 2017 à 18:00:08+0300, Dmitry Shachnev a écrit :
> Package: mailman3-core
> Version: 3.1.0-3
> Severity: serious
> 
> Dear maintainer,
> 
> In a clean sid chroot I get this error when trying to install mailman3-core:
> 
>   Setting up mailman3-core (3.1.0-3) ...
>   dbconfig-common: writing config to /etc/dbconfig-common/mailman3-core.conf
> 
>   Creating config file /etc/dbconfig-common/mailman3-core.conf with new version
>   chown: invalid user: 'postgres'
>   unable to connect to postgresql server.
>   error encountered creating user:
>   No passwd entry for user 'postgres'
>   dbconfig-common: mailman3-core configure: noninteractive fail.
>   dbconfig-common: mailman3-core configure: ignoring errors from here forwards
>   dbconfig-common: flushing administrative password
>   sed: -e expression #1, char 65: unknown option to `s'
>   dpkg: error processing package mailman3-core (--configure):
>    installed mailman3-core package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
> 
> This can be also seen in CI logs:
> https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/unstable/amd64/m/mailman3-core/20171113_143457/log.gz

Thanks for the report.

I suspect putting slashes as delimiters in sed when sed receives an output
from base64 is not the best of an idea.

I've designed a patch, I have to test it. I'll come back to you ASAP.

Cheers,

-- 
Pierre-Elliott Bécue
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