[Dbconfig-common-devel] character escaping of templates (bug 716841)

[Paul Gevers]

Hi all,

The logic to dbconfig-generate-include in the dbconfig-common source is
slightly flawed [1] in the sense that it escapes all variable depending
on the language in case the dbconfig-common templates are used, but
forgets to do this language specific when a package template is used. As
I don't think there is a watertight check possible to determine what
language the variables should be escaped for (and e.g. in case of php/sh
it also depends on how the strings are quoted (' vs ")) I propose to
extend the format from "template" to "template | phptemplate |
shtemplate | perltemplate | cpptemplate" and use the right escape
algorithm depending on the selected format. I propose to keep "template"
as-is but let it generate a warning.

Objections? Other ideas or solutions?

Paul

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=716841

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