Package: ttf-mscorefonts-installer
Version: 3.1
Justification: breaks unrelated software
Severity: critical
The new revision seems to introduce a very strict regex to validate HTTP
proxy configuration in the package configuration script, which makes it
impossible to use a proxy with a non fully qualified domain name. If
you try to use a proxy name such as 'http://myproxy:8080', you will get
back to the debconfig screen withotu any error message, if you don't
know that you should use 'http://myproxy.mycompany.com', you won't be
able to get out of the loop and upgrade your system, even CTRL-C won't
let you get out of the loop (hence the severity level for this bug report).
Contexts where people use a non qualified host name as a proxy are very
frequent !
Contexts people use a fake domain name is also something that exists
(e.g 'proxy.home.lan') !
The code is as follows:
while ! echo "$http_proxy" | \
egrep -q
'https?://([[:alnum:]]([-[:alnum:]]+[[:alnum:]])*\.)+[[:alnum:]]{2,3}(:\d+)?/?'
&& \
[ ! -z "$http_proxy" ] ; do
db_fset msttcorefonts/http_proxy seen false
db_input high msttcorefonts/http_proxy
db_go
db_get msttcorefonts/http_proxy
http_proxy=$RET
done
Worse: if you look closely at the regex you see that even a FQDN with a
top level domain name that is more than 3 letters will be rejected, even
though there *are* such valid TLDs (eg. '.info', '.travel', '.aero'...).
I think that the script should just *not* try to enforce such a strict
regex, but should just fail nicely if it fails to resolve the provided
string.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (700, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages ttf-mscorefonts-installer depends on:
ii cabextract 1.2-3 a program to extract
Microsoft Cab
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.28 Debian configuration
management sy
ii defoma 0.11.10-4 Debian Font Manager --
automatic f
ii wget 1.12-1.1 retrieves files from the web
ii xfonts-utils 1:7.5+2 X Window System font
utility progr
Versions of packages ttf-mscorefonts-installer recommends:
ii ttf-liberation 1.05.2.20091019-4 Fonts with the same metrics
as Tim
ii x-ttcidfont-conf 32 TrueType and CID fonts
configurati
ttf-mscorefonts-installer suggests no packages.
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