Bug#399316: postinst breaks

Andreas Metzler ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org
Sun Nov 19 18:49:40 CET 2006


On 2006-11-19 Santiago Garcia Mantinan <manty at debian.org> wrote:
> Package: mdadm
> Version: 2.5.6-5
> Severity: serious
[...]
> Setting up mdadm (2.5.6-5) ...
> -e If your system has its root filesystem on an MD array (RAID), it 
[...]

This is caused by this line in the config script:

| db_subst mdadm/initrdstart msg "$(echo -e "${RET}${suffix}" | debconf-escape -e)"

echo -e will not work with /bin/sh=dash.

I guess this is a typo, the maintainer probably wanted to use -n
instead of -e.
cu andreas
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