Bug#628084: cdebconf: tasksel debconf does not start in d-i
Hi Samuel,
I believe the issue should have been fixed in git, now, thanks for
pointing to the additional bug, it helped find another similar one.
Could you check if tasksel works again with a new snapshot, to confirm
the problem is actually gone ?
Thanks,
Regis
On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 03:02 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Package: cdebconf
> Version: 0.156~0
> Severity: important
>
> Hello,
>
> I've built the current git version of cdebconf and built d-i CDs, it
> seems the latest changes make tasksel's debconf not start: with 0.155,
> it does start, but with 0.156~0 pkgsel calls tasksel, tasksel starts its
> backend, which does the db_* calls, db_input and db_go, but no question
> appears at all and the return value is empty, and thus tasksel doesn't
> install anything.
>
> Most changes in 0.156~0 are not in the udeb, except the "Implement
> handling of multiple flags in the rfc822db backend." change, maybe there
> is a small typo or something like this there. At least one difference I
> can see is that when there is no flag, "Flags:\n" is output instead of
> "Flags: \n", but maybe the bug is hiding in parse_flags too: there are a
> few odd things:
>
> if (!string)
> return;
>
> Doesn't the compiler warn that a return value should be specified? It
> should be 0 here, and that might be exactly the case where tasksel
> loses, because the tasksel/first template is not preloaded, it is loaded
> by hand by the tasksel debconf backend.
>
> Also,
>
> while (*wc == ' ' || *wc == '\t' || *wc == '\0')
> {
> wc++;
> }
>
> if the string is "Flags: foo " with a trailing space, the loop will not
> stop. wc should probably be set to delim+1 (finished not being 1 assures
> us that *delim was not \0) and drop *wc == 0 from the while loop above.
>
> Samuel
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: wheezy/sid
> APT prefers testing
> APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.39 (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 cdebconf depends on:
> ii debconf 1.5.39 Debian configuration management sy
> ii libc6 2.13-4 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
> ii libdebian-installer4 0.77+squeeze2 Library of common debian-installer
> ii libnewt0.52 0.52.11-2 Not Erik's Windowing Toolkit - tex
> ii libslang2 2.2.4-2 S-Lang programming library - runti
> ii libtextwrap1 0.1-11 text-wrapping library with i18n -
>
> cdebconf recommends no packages.
>
> Versions of packages cdebconf suggests:
> pn cdebconf-gtk <none> (no description available)
>
> -- no debconf information
>
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