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foomatic-db package

  1. Bug #345866
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 345866

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote : Re: [Bug 345866] Re: Insufficient quoting of filenames

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 04:37:13PM -0000, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> mdz, than its fortunately only an ugly message and nothing which got
> missed to be done.
>
> The message is caused by a function of the postinstall script which
> updates the PPDs of the existing print queues if they have PPDs coming
> from (an older version of) this package. As the script is not aborted by
> these errors the real print queues still get updated.

It's good that it didn't cause a problem, but it's still a bug in the
script. You can't use shell variables this way without quoting them. It
should be simple to fix by adding double quotes around the variable like
this: "$ppd"

Understand?

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 - mdz