[Debconf-devel] Bug#636219: How can we quote # in a value passed to debconf-set-selections?

[Holger Levsen]

On Montag, 26. März 2012, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> See #664976 for the details of the Debian Edu problem.  Clear text
> passwords are passed from d-i to /target/ using
> debconf-set-selections, and breaking for passwords like '*#secret'.

I think it's better to recommend not to use passwords with a "#" (and possible 
other characters) then modifiying the way preseeding works in stable.

And, after all, preseeding clear text passwords is sub-optimal anyway.