Package: debconf Version: 1.5.85 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: daniel.bung...@canonical.com
Dear Maintainer, While debugging a FTBFS in Ubiquity, I observed that the usage of debconf-copydb regressed when using version 1.5.85 of debconf. The previous-in-Ubuntu version 1.5.82 of debconf was OK. That invocation looks roughly like: debconf-copydb templatedb pipe --config=Name:pipe --config=Driver:Pipe --config=InFd:none ... Bisecting debconf from there found commit 5db857ade00953496bfdb7edb884296bebc41885: "Avoid two-argument open" Further tracing found the following change to Debconf/DbDriver/Pipe.pm around line 120: - open ($fh, '>-'); + open ($fh, '>', \*STDOUT); An additional symptom of this problem is GLOB files are created in CWD with names that look like: GLOB(0x0123456789ab) Pointing the above to above to configdb on a fairly stock Debian Sid installation produces an equivalent result - GLOB file creation instead of the output. Is the 3-argument form this? open ($fh, '>&', \*STDOUT); Originally filed as LP: #2052982. -Dan
