[Bug 889028] [NEW] upgrade to tomcat6 6.0.28-2ubuntu1.5 failed

[B.J. de Hoop]

Public bug reported:

The installation of the security update of tomcat6 failed with the
message:

Setting up tomcat6 (6.0.28-2ubuntu1.5) ...
sed: -e expression #1, char 130: unknown option to `s'
dpkg: error processing tomcat6 (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 tomcat6
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

When investigating the problem in the post-installation script of
tomcat6 (added -x to /bin/sh) I found that the error was caused by a
JAVA_OPTS option, set in /etc/default/tomcat6, which contained forward
slashes (because it specified a path). Which caused the sed commando in
line 23 in /var/lib/dpkg/info/tomcat6.postinst to fail.

Line 23:

sed "s/^JAVA_OPTS=.*$/JAVA_OPTS=\"$JAVA_OPTS\"/" \

evaluated to:

sed s/^JAVA_OPTS=.*$/JAVA_OPTS="-Djava.awt.headless=true -Xmx2048m
-XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:+CMSIncrementalMode
-Dsolr.solr.home=/srv/solr/cores"/

** Affects: tomcat6 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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