[Splashy-devel] Bug#509025: [splashy] lsb-base-logging.sh fails to run since SPL_PRG is undefined

[R Cheng]

Package: splashy
Version: 0.3.12-1
Severity: important

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After trying to update mysql-server-5.0, restarting the service halts
the update process with an error: SPL_PRG unbound variable

An independent confirmation of this bug can be seen here:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://linuxfr.org/forums/15/26260.html&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3D/etc/lsb-base-logging.sh%2B-f%2BSPL_PRG%26hl%3Den%26client%3Diceweasel-a%26rls%3Dorg.debian:en-US:unofficial%26sa%3DG

The problem appears in the following lines of code in /etc/lsb-base-logging.sh:

    ##############################################################
    # Start splashy code
    # sanity check:
    [ -x $SPL_UPD ] || return $1;
    [ -f $SPL_PRG ] || return $1;  # SPL_PRG is used here but is
defined two lines later
    [ ! -d $STEPS_DIR ] && mkdir -p $STEPS_DIR
    SPL_PRG=$STEPS_DIR/$RUNLEVEL-progress




--- System information. ---
Architecture: i386
Kernel:       Linux 2.6.26-1-686

Debian Release: 5.0
  500 unstable        mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca
  500 unstable        ftp.us.debian.org
  500 unstable        eeepc.debian.net
  500 testing         security.debian.org
  500 stable          ftp.us.debian.org
    1 experimental    ftp.us.debian.org

--- Package information. ---
Depends                  (Version) | Installed
==================================-+-=============
libc6                   (>= 2.7-1) | 2.7-16
libdirectfb-1.0-0     (>= 1.0.1-9) | 1.0.1-11
libgcc1               (>= 1:4.1.1) | 1:4.3.2-1
libglib2.0-0           (>= 2.12.0) | 2.16.6-1
libmagic1                          | 4.26-2
libsplashy1                        | 0.3.12-1
zlib1g                (>= 1:1.1.4) | 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12
lsb-base                           | 3.2-20
initramfs-tools                    | 0.92m