[pkg-firebird-general] Bug#521046: firebird2.1-classic: postinst failure

[Damyan Ivanov]

tags 521046 -unreproducible -moreinfo
severity 521046 important
clone 521046 -1
reassign -1 debconf
notfound -1 2.1.1.17910-release.ds1-3+b1
found -1 1.5.26
retitle -1 "/usr/share/debconf/confmodule: line 65: $@: unbound variable" with bash 4 and posh
block 521046 -1
thanks


-=| Adam D. Barratt, Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 07:48:30PM +0100 |=-
> On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 18:12 +0300, Damyan Ivanov wrote:
> > -=| Laurent Bonnaud, Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 03:44:57PM +0100 |=-
> > > here is the problem:
> > > 
> > > Setting up firebird2.1-classic (2.1.1.17910-release.ds1-3+b1) ...
> > > /usr/share/debconf/confmodule: line 65: $@: unbound variable
> > > dpkg: error processing firebird2.1-classic (--configure):
> 
> It is with bash 4.0 (and posh, apparently). :-/ Not sure if that's the
> case here, but it's worth checking...
> 
> See http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/03/msg00432.html for a
> related discussion.

Thanks Adam for the pointer.

I am cloning a bugreport to debhelper, where the actual error is 
triggered.

With this change is bash/posh[1], I guess anyone not using dash as 
/bin/sh and runs debconf-using maintainer scripts under "set -u" will 
suffer.

    [1] at least the bash change is not yet in sid, only in 
    experimental; not sure about posh

There is a bug reported against bash related to this:
http://bugs.debian.org/519165

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