On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 03:03:28PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> I have tried debugging the issue to get a minimal testcase. I have had
> some success. The issue is triggered by debconf.
> /usr/share/debconf/confmodule changes IFS to \n and with bash5 this
> change is persistent and breaks the maintainerscript.
Does this patch help?
diff --git a/confmodule b/confmodule
index 8347c0b0..e6157520 100644
--- a/confmodule
+++ b/confmodule
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ _db_cmd () {
# Set to newline to get whole line.
IFS='
' read -r _db_internal_line
+ IFS="$_db_internal_IFS"
# Disgusting, but it's the only good way to split the line,
# preserving all other whitespace.
RET="${_db_internal_line#[! ][ ]}"
(If so, that would suggest that the problem might be specifically in
variable assignments preceding builtins.)
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Colin Watson [[email protected]]
