Comment 2 for bug 344021

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François Marier (fmarier) wrote :

This fix is quite important as debconf answers are not currently parsed properly.

Thankfully, the fix is quite trivial:

--- a/send-reminders
+++ b/send-reminders
@@ -131,6 +131,8 @@ sub read_config
             s/\s+$//; # no trailing white
             next unless length; # anything left?
             my ($var, $value) = split(/\s*=\s*/, $_, 2);
+ $value = 1 if $value eq 'true' or $value eq 'yes';
+ $value = 0 if $value eq 'false' or $value eq 'no';
             $preferences{$var} = $value;
         }
         close $config_fh;