Bug#498189: xfonts-scalable: fmt fed invalid width b0rks installation
Package: xfonts-scalable
Version: 1:1.0.0-6
Severity: normal
This bug looks similar to #300990.
When I install xfonts-scalable without a terminal in a script I think inside
debian/xsfbs/xsfbs.sh when it calls message() reject_nondigits() could do more
by checking that columns are within a certain range acceptable to `fmt`.
For some reason or another I get:
Setting up xfonts-scalable (1:1.0.0-6) ...
fmt: invalid width: `63469'
fmt: invalid width: `63469'
fmt: invalid width: `63469'
Unreasonably large values for columns, which can change:
au:/srv/web/build.webconverger.com/logs% grep "invalid width" *.txt | uniq
2008-08-03.lenny.txt:fmt: invalid width: `64243'
2008-08-04.lenny.txt:fmt: invalid width: `61759'
2008-08-05.lenny.txt:fmt: invalid width: `63460'
2008-08-06.lenny.txt:fmt: invalid width: `63461'
2008-08-06.sid.txt:fmt: invalid width: `63465'
2008-08-07.sid.txt:fmt: invalid width: `63470'
2008-09-07.lenny.txt:fmt: invalid width: `63474'
2008-09-07.sid.txt:fmt: invalid width: `63469'
Kind regards,
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages xfonts-scalable depends on:
ii xfonts-utils 1:7.4+1 X Window System font utility progr
xfonts-scalable recommends no packages.
Versions of packages xfonts-scalable suggests:
ii vncserver [xserver] 3.3.7-14 Virtual network computing server s
ii xserver-xorg-core [xserver] 2:1.4.2-5 Xorg X server - core server
-- no debconf information
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