Subject: not all characters in password for user sympa allowed Package: sympa Version: 5.3.4-6.1 Severity: important
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Dear Debian folks,
in the Debconf-dialog for the password of the sympa user, I had included
the character ‘(’ using pwgen -sy for password generator.
I got the following error message.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up sympa (5.3.4-6.1) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/sympa.config: eval: line 153: syntax error near unexpected
token `('
dpkg: error processing sympa (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
sympa
The locale on this system—reportbug was run on a different machine—is
en_US.
If this is hard to fix, it would be nice to add a warning/notice to the
Debconf-dialog that only ASCII characters are allowed.
If I can provide further information, please tell me.
I am not sure about the severity, so adapt as you like.
Thanks,
Paul
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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