[Debconf-devel] Bug#522255: Bug#519165: also affects debconf

[martin f krafft]

also sprach martin f krafft <madduck at debian.org> [2009.04.29.1142 +0200]:
> also sprach Joey Hess <joeyh at debian.org> [2009.04.03.2047 +0200]:
> > Since debconf's confmodule uses $@, to support being called
> > from set -u maintainer scripts it would need to either
> > set +u (not very nice since that would also affect its caller),
> > or use ${@:+}. But this bug prevents the latter; so debconf's bug,
> > #522255, is effectively blocked by this bug in bash.
> 
> As a workaround, you want to use ${@:-}, not ${@:+}.

I am wrong, see my message to 519165:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=519165#45

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