Your message dated Tue, 26 Jan 2016 18:34:02 +0000
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and subject line Bug#812784: fixed in debianutils 4.7
has caused the Debian Bug report #812784,
regarding debianutils: add-shell chokes on empty /etc/shells, due to use of
grep to copy it
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Package: debianutils
Version: 4.6
Severity: important
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
With debian-utils 4.6 the add-shell utility now uses a grep '^' construct to
copy /etc/shells to a temporary file.
This construct fails if grep does not find at least one match, which can happen
if /etc/shells is empty.
In this case add-shell errors out with a (in context) bogus error message.
This behaviour is a change from previous versions which used 'awk' for the same
purpose.
Judging by the rest of the code, an empty /etc/shells (and hence empty
tmeporary file) should not otherwise prevent add-shell from working correctly.
Since the package already relies on 'cat' for the subsequent error message, why
not simply use 'cat' for the copying stage as well? (Or, indeed, why not use
cp?)
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This particular bug can be triggered by bootstrapping tools (e.g.: brickstrap)
or by manually creating an empty /etc/shells to provoke it.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers testing-updates
APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages debianutils depends on:
ii libc6 2.21-7
ii sensible-utils 0.0.9
debianutils recommends no packages.
debianutils suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: debianutils
Source-Version: 4.7
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
debianutils, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Clint Adams <[email protected]> (supplier of updated debianutils package)
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Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 13:17:55 -0500
Source: debianutils
Binary: debianutils
Architecture: source amd64
Version: 4.7
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Clint Adams <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Clint Adams <[email protected]>
Description:
debianutils - Miscellaneous utilities specific to Debian
Closes: 812784
Changes:
debianutils (4.7) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* Revert "add-shell: use grep instead of awk." closes: #812784.
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