Package: debconf Version: 1.4.30.13 Severity: normal It looks like the response to a SUBST command does not start out with a status code. As a result, confmodule is trying to call the shell return function with a non-numeric argument (abbreviated):
+ db_subst mdadm/initrdstart msg 'If your system ...' + _db_cmd 'SUBST mdadm/initrdstart' msg 'If your system ...' + echo 'SUBST mdadm/initrdstart' msg 'If your system has ...' + local 'IFS= ' + local _LINE + read -r _LINE + RET=If you know ... + return If /tmp/mdadm.config.270949: line 42: return: If: numeric argument required The problem may also be related to the fact that the message I am substituting is an (escaped) string spanning three paragraphs, and since this version of debconf does not have debconf-escape, it may not be able to deal. METAGET, which I called to get the text for the SUBST, only returned the first paragraph, and the value assigned to RET by SUBST is the second paragraph. No sign of the third paragraph. This is the .config file btw: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-mdadm/mdadm/trunk/debian/mdadm.config?op=file&rev=0&sc=0 -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (750, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (250, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-686 Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages debconf depends on: ii debconf-i18n 1.5.4 full internationalization support ii perl-base 5.8.8-6.1 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbis Versions of packages debconf recommends: ii apt-utils 0.6.45 APT utility programs -- debconf information excluded -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian developer, author, administrator, and user `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck http://debiansystem.info `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems
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