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Re: Bug#636219: How can we quote # in a value passed to debconf-set-selections?



Steven Chamberlain wrote:
> I'm merging this with an older bug report about the same issue.  I'm
> reopening that and tagging as 'squeeze' because I think it maybe should
> be addressed in a future point release of Squeeze.

How do you know that Squeeze users are not depending on preseed files
with embedded comments in production?

> In the case of Debian Edu configuration scripts, this bug meant that a
> password containing a # character would be truncated

AFAIK, a crypted password string will not contain a `#`.

Also, d-i's password preseeding does not involve debconf's version
of debconf-set-selections.

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see shy jo

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