Package: dpkg
Version: 1.15.8.12
Severity: normal
File: /sbin/start-stop-daemon

When specifying arguments with whitespace in /etc/default/foo,
start-stop-daemon will break these when passing them to the daemon:

/etc/default/foo

        ARGS="-c 'bar quux'"

/etc/init.d/foo

        start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec $DAEMON -- $ARGS

The daemon will then parse it's options as:

        op=/c/
        optarg=/'bar /

(slashes added to mark begining and end of text)

The only workaround I found so far is:

/etc/default/foo

        ARGS="-a -b"
        C="bar quux"

/etc/init.d/foo

        [ -n "$C" ] && ARGS="$ARGS -c"
        start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec $DAEMON -- $ARGS "$C"

Regards

        Stefan

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.5
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-xen-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/bash

Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii  coreutils               8.5-1            GNU core utilities
ii  libbz2-1.0              1.0.5-6+squeeze1 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc6                   2.11.3-3         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libselinux1             2.0.96-1         SELinux runtime shared libraries
ii  xz-utils                5.0.0-2          XZ-format compression utilities
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

dpkg recommends no packages.

Versions of packages dpkg suggests:
ii  apt                    0.8.10.3+squeeze1 Advanced front-end for dpkg

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