Debian Bug report logs - #174130
debconf: allow empty variable substitutions in Choices field

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Package: debconf; Maintainer for debconf is Debconf Developers <[email protected]>; Source for debconf is src:debconf (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Denis Barbier <[email protected]>

Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 22:48:04 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Found in version 1.2.20

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Package: debconf
Version: 1.2.20
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

Hi,

consider for instance
  Choices: ${foo}, Other, Exit
Sometimes ${foo} may be empty, in which case debconf displays an empty
line.  A workaround is to replace it by
  Choices: ${foo} Other, Exit
and to add a comma within foo when needed.
This is silly, IMO debconf should not take empty fields into account in
Choices fields.
Here is a patch.

Denis

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux france0danemark2 2.4.20-386 #1 Sat Dec 21 14:31:26 EST 2002 i586
Locale: LANG=fr_FR@euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR@euro (ignored: LC_ALL set)

Versions of packages debconf depends on:
ii  perl-base                     5.8.0-14   The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbis

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