Package: dwww
Version: 1.14
Severity: wishlist
The dwww configuration file "/etc/dwww/dwww.conf" statess
"The file is in Bourne shell script format, thus no spaces may be used in
variables assignments."
which gives a false impression since the configuration file is in fact read
using the Perl
configuration file /usr/share/perl5/Debian/Dwww/ConfigFile.pm which parses the
entries
using the regular expression on line 150
(m/^\s*([^=]+)\s*=\s*['"]?([^'"\s]+)['"]?\s*$/)
This expression deoes not enforce that the type of quote for the end of the
parameter value matches
the type of quote used for the end of the parameter value ie the starting quote
can be a single
quote and the cloing quote van be a double quote or vice versa, which seems
rather strange.
Since the default title contains a space vis 'dwww: your_hostname' it is surely
not unreasonable
to override this with a custom title containning one or more spaces. It would
be simple to
add if condition that if the parameter is DWWW_TITLE then a different regular
expression is
used without the restriction of not allowing one or more spaces in the string.
Further it could also be permitted that if the opening and closing quotes are
limitd to double
quotes for the DWWW_TITLE parameter, then one or ore single quotes would be
permitted in the
string which would allow possessives eg "Debian's" to be used.
Thanking your for your consideration of these suggested improvements to the
dwww package.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.5
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: armel (armv5tel)
Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-18-marvell
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored:
LC_ALL set to en_US), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages dwww depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.77
ii debianutils 4.11.2
ii doc-base 0.11.1
ii file 1:5.39-3
ii libc6 2.31-13+deb11u4
ii libfile-ncopy-perl 0.36-2.1
ii libmime-types-perl 2.18-1
ii lighttpd [httpd-cgi] 1.4.59-1+deb11u1
ii man-db 2.9.4-2
ii mime-support 3.66
ii perl 5.32.1-4+deb11u2
ii sensible-utils 0.0.14
ii ucf 3.0043
Versions of packages dwww recommends:
ii apt 2.2.4
ii dlocate 1.07+nmu1
ii info2www 1.2.2.9-24.1
ii lighttpd [httpd] 1.4.59-1+deb11u1
ii swish++ 6.1.5-5
Versions of packages dwww suggests:
ii doc-debian 6.5
ii dpkg-www 2.61
pn links | www-browser <none>
-- debconf information excluded
