Bug#444453: "E: Unimplemented function" with large strings

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 06:05:03PM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> Package: cdebconf
> Version: 0.123
> 
> When I use debconf-set to set a really long string, I get the message
> "E: Unimplemented function".  Apparently the string has to be longer
> than ~1024 bytes and contain newlines:

Fixing this will involve:

  1) teaching cdebconf to handle the "escape" capability, as implemented
  in debconf;

  2) teaching debconf-set to use it.

As it stands, shoving data that contains newlines through debconf-set
breaks the debconf protocol, since the data after the newline is
interpreted as a new command.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]