Bug#568317: linux-image-* postinst did not correctly run lilo

[Niko Tyni]

reassign 568317 linux-2.6
retitle 568317 linux-image-* postinst did not correctly run lilo
thanks

On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 04:49:23PM +1100, paul.szabo at sydney.edu.au wrote:
> This is not a bug in perl, works as documented in 'man perlretut'.

Right.

> The issue is with the /g modifier, as shown with script:

> This is bad usage in the linux-source-2.6.26 package.
> My /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.26-*.postinst file has header:

> Should I report this bug (spurious, un-needed /g) to the
> linux-source-2.6.26 package, or will you be able to re-assign, or
> otherwise let Mr Srivastava know?

Reassigning now. I see similar m//g usage in
 /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-amd64.postinst
but you could probably follow up and explain what exactly was incorrect
about running lilo.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org