[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#881622: 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 16:23:18+0100, Pierre-Elliott Bécue a écrit :
> 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,

Dear Dmitry,

My patch seems to work properly to fix your issue. I asked to a developer to
upload the new version of the package.

Anyway, you'll need to configure properly a database if you expect the process
to end properly, as a working db is required to have mailman3-core start.

Cheers,

-- 
PEB
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