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Re: [cdebconf] empty value != no value



fre 2002-11-22 klockan 17.02 skrev Denis Barbier:
> Hi,
> 
> debconf makes a difference between no value and an empty value.
> In order for cdebconf to have the same behaviour, question_get_field
> must return NULL if the requested field does not exist, which breaks
> many things because it is supposed to return a pointer to a string.
> May I perform all the necessary changes, and potentiolly cause some
> sigsegv if a return address is kept untested?

I for one would be very happy to see the distinction no value != empty
value. In fact, I've been pondering how to detect the "no value" case :)

I'd say go ahead, the errors are probably easy to find and fix.


/Martin

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