Bug#185014: cdebconf mangles strings with consecutive spaces

[barbier@linuxfr.org (Denis Barbier)]

On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 03:27:06PM +0100, Martin Sjögren wrote:
> Package: cdebconf
> Version: 0.33
> Severity: important
> 
> When I try to e.g. subst a string with several consecutive spaces (for
> alignment for example), cdebconf wrecks the spacing in its argument
> parsing. cdebconf does piece together the strings again, but only with a
> single space, so the multiple spaces are forgotten.

AFAICT debconf also removes multiple spaces.

Denis