Bug#573240: bad unicode space in postinst: [: 92: missing ]

[Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>]

Package: libc6
Version: 2.10.2-6
Severity: normal

root@gnu:/home/joey>/var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6.postinst configure 2.09
Checking for services that may need to be restarted...
Checking init scripts...
atd is running.
[: 92: missing ]
Checking periodic command scheduler...failed (failed to start).
[: 92: missing ]
Status of Common Unix Printing System: cupsd is running.
[: 92: missing ]
postfix is running.
[: 92: missing ]
could not access PID file for rsync ... failed!
[: 92: missing ]
gdm is running.
[: 92: missing ]
Nothing to restart.

The bug is in the following line. The space after "1" is not a regular
space, but some other unicode space, which dash does not recognise as
whitespace.

                    if [ "$status" = "0" ] || [ "$status" = "1" ] ; then

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libc6 depends on:
ii  libc-bin                      2.10.2-6   Embedded GNU C Library: Binaries
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.4.2-9  GCC support library

Versions of packages libc6 recommends:
ii  libc6-i686                    2.10.2-6   GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i

Versions of packages libc6 suggests:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.28     Debian configuration management sy
pn  glibc-doc                     <none>     (no description available)
ii  locales                       2.10.2-6   Embedded GNU C Library: National L

-- debconf information excluded

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