"Old package separator used in string at" message in host logs after upgrade to 24.04

[Ari Sovijärvi]

After upgrading from Ubuntu 22.04 to 24.04, the BackupPC_backupDelete script adds following error to host logs:

Old package separator used in string at /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_backupDelete line 102.
 (Did you mean "$Host\'s" instead?)

Looking at that specific line, I'm sure Perl's suggestion to escape the apostrophe is correct here.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.04
Package: backuppc 4.4.0-8build1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.8.0-47.47-generic 6.8.12
Uname: Linux 6.8.0-47-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.28.1-0ubuntu3.1
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
Date: Sun Oct 27 13:19:51 2024
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 TERM=xterm-256color
SourcePackage: backuppc
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to noble on 2024-01-28 (273 days ago)
modified.conffile..etc.backuppc.apache.conf: [modified]
modified.conffile..etc.backuppc.hosts: [modified]
mtime.conffile..etc.backuppc.apache.conf: 2022-03-06T16:19:34.289194
mtime.conffile..etc.backuppc.hosts: 2023-12-22T16:57:32.339110

[Ari Sovijärvi (apz-fi)]

This will escape the string as Perl wants and silences the warning.

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

The attachment "Add an escape to silence warning" seems to be a patch. If it isn't, please remove the "patch" flag from the attachment, remove the "patch" tag, and if you are a member of the ~ubuntu-reviewers, unsubscribe the team.

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[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Thanks for reporting this issue and providing a patch.

Looks like this has also been reported and resolved in Debian, see the attached bug watch.