Comment 9 for bug 10655

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Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 20:39:15 +0100
From: <email address hidden> (Denis Barbier)
To: Christian Perrier <email address hidden>
Cc: Frans Pop <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#282582: Some functions in cdebconf improperly handle escaped commas

On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 06:54:04AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
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> In the future, something should be done for cdebconf handling this
> situation better, imho. Probably make it fail rather than silently
> exit.

No, otherwise we would have to add lots of run-time checks. A better
solution is to check that generated templates files are right, e.g.
with help from linda/lintian.

Denis