On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 08:56:15AM +0100, Ralf Treinen wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 10:30:09PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 18:56:21 +0100, Ralf Treinen wrote:
> > 
> > > diff -ur rinputd-1.0.5.old/debian/config rinputd-1.0.5/debian/config
> > > --- rinputd-1.0.5.old/debian/config       2012-04-12 20:06:14.000000000 
> > > +0200
> > > +++ rinputd-1.0.5/debian/config   2013-03-15 17:44:54.000000000 +0100
> > > @@ -2,8 +2,6 @@
> > >  
> > >  set -e
> > >  
> > > -[ `echo $DEBIAN_FRONTEND | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'` = 
> > > "noninteractive" ] && exit 0
> > > -
> > >  . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
> > >  
> > >  db_beginblock
> > > @@ -13,6 +11,10 @@
> > >  
> > >  db_go
> > >  
> > > +# initialisation of USER and PASS needed in the non-interactive case
> > > +USER="rinputd"
> > > +PASS=`openssl rand -base64 8`
> > > +
> > >  db_get rinputd/username
> > >  USER="$RET"
> > >  db_get rinputd/passwd
> > 
> > I'm not sure you can rely on non-essential packages being installed
> > during config.  That includes openssl.
> 
> Good point. 
> 
> > Also how does this work when you're just overriding those values a
> > couple of lines later?
> 
> These values would be used in the case the debconf frontend is non-inteactive.
> 
> Anyway, this is a leaf package with virtual zero popcon. I wonder why the
> release team hasn't kicked it out of wheezy since a long time.

I agree. Upstream is at best dormant, the fix is clearly non-trivial and
with a popcon of i4:v4 it's just wasting good people's time. I'll take it
out later if there are no objections.


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