On 2018-06-10 Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 03:03:28PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
>> I have tried debugging the issue to get a minimal testcase. I have had
>> some success. The issue is triggered by debconf.
>> /usr/share/debconf/confmodule changes IFS to \n and with bash5 this
>> change is persistent and breaks the maintainerscript.
> Does this patch help?
> diff --git a/confmodule b/confmodule
> index 8347c0b0..e6157520 100644
> --- a/confmodule
> +++ b/confmodule
> @@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ _db_cmd () {
> # Set to newline to get whole line.
> IFS='
> ' read -r _db_internal_line
> + IFS="$_db_internal_IFS"
> # Disgusting, but it's the only good way to split the line,
> # preserving all other whitespace.
> RET="${_db_internal_line#[! ][ ]}"
> (If so, that would suggest that the problem might be specifically in
> variable assignments preceding builtins.)
Hello Colin,
yes, resetting IFS to its default value in confmodule helps.
cu Andreas
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