On Wed, 22 May 2019 23:36:43 -0400 (EDT) Anders Kaseorg <ande...@mit.edu> wrote:
> When building a Debian- or Ubuntu-based Docker container, installing
> perl (so that Term::Readline is available) and a package that asks a
> Debconf question causes the build to freeze with an interactive readline
> prompt that cannot be answered:
> ...
> Docker builds are noninteractive, of course, and stdin is connected to
> /dev/null. What seems to have happened here is that apt created a pty and
> connected stdout and stderr to it, but left stdin connected to /dev/null.
> The Readline frontend checked that there’s a controlling tty (there is),
> but failed to check that stdin is a tty (it’s not). So it proceeded to
> wait for input from a tty that will never provide it.
>
> (Obviously one can set DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive as a workaround, but
> that shouldn’t be necessary, and is in fact discouraged:
> https://docs.docker.com/engine/faq/#why-is-debian_frontendnoninteractive-discouraged-in-dockerfiles
>
> because it’s often set in ways that persist for longer than intended.)
Friendly ping? :)
Would it be helpful if someone were to make the attached patch into a
Merge Request on Salsa for easier review?
As a bit of added versioning information, this affects Debian Stretch
(1.5.61) and newer, but Debian Jessie (1.5.56+deb8u1) is unaffected
(and over in Ubuntu land, Xenial is unaffected at 1.5.58ubuntu2, but
Bionic at 1.5.66ubuntu1 and newer *is* affected).
I'm not sure what changed this behavior between Jessie and Stretch
(possibly something outside the debconf package?), but the relevant
debdiff for debconf is relatively small (~400 lines if one excludes
translation updates), so I've attached that here in case it's helpful.
♥,
- Tianon
4096R / B42F 6819 007F 00F8 8E36 4FD4 036A 9C25 BF35 7DD4
diff -Nru --exclude '*.po' --exclude '*.pot'
debconf-1.5.56+deb8u1/bash_completion debconf-1.5.61/bash_completion
--- debconf-1.5.56+deb8u1/bash_completion 2017-06-16 15:22:02.000000000
-0700
+++ debconf-1.5.61/bash_completion 2015-11-07 19:17:02.000000000 -0800
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-have debconf-show &&
+_have debconf-show &&
_debconf_show()
{
local cur
diff -Nru --exclude '*.po' --exclude '*.pot'
debconf-1.5.56+deb8u1/Debconf/Config.pm debconf-1.5.61/Debconf/Config.pm
--- debconf-1.5.56+deb8u1/Debconf/Config.pm 2017-06-16 15:22:02.000000000
-0700
+++ debconf-1.5.61/Debconf/Config.pm 2015-07-12 10:35:31.000000000 -0700
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
my $text=shift;
my $hash=shift;
- $text =~ s/\${([^}]+)}/$ENV{$1}/eg;
+ $text =~ s/\$\{([^}]+)\}/$ENV{$1}/eg;
my %ret;
my $i;
diff -Nru --exclude '*.po' --exclude '*.pot'
debconf-1.5.56+deb8u1/Debconf/Element/Editor/Multiselect.pm
debconf-1.5.61/Debconf/Element/Editor/Multiselect.pm
--- debconf-1.5.56+deb8u1/Debconf/Element/Editor/Multiselect.pm 2017-06-16
15:22:02.000000000 -0700
+++ debconf-1.5.61/Debconf/Element/Editor/Multiselect.pm 2015-11-07
18:11:17.000000000 -0800
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
=head1 DESCRIPTION
-Presents a list of choices to be selected amoung. Multiple selection is
+Presents a list of choices to be selected among. Multiple selection is
allowed.
=head1 METHODS
diff -Nru --exclude '*.po' --exclude '*.pot'
debconf-1.5.56+deb8u1/Debconf/Element/Editor/Select.pm
debconf-1.5.61/Debconf/Element/Editor/Select.pm
--- debconf-1.5.56+deb8u1/Debconf/Element/Editor/Select.pm 2017-06-16
15:22:02.000000000 -0700
+++ debconf-1.5.61/Debconf/Element/Editor/Select.pm 2015-11-07
18:11:19.000000000 -0800
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
=head1 DESCRIPTION
-Presents a list of choices to be selected amoung.
+Presents a list of choices to be selected among.
=head2 METHODS
diff -Nru --exclude '*.po' --exclude '*.pot'
debconf-1.5.56+deb8u1/Debconf/Element/Teletype/Boolean.pm
debconf-1.5.61/Debconf/Element/Teletype/Boolean.pm
--- debconf-1.5.56+deb8u1/Debconf/Element/Teletype/Boolean.pm 2017-06-16
15:22:02.000000000 -0700
+++ debconf-1.5.61/Debconf/Element/Teletype/Boolean.pm 2015-11-07
18:36:34.000000000 -0800
@@ -40,6 +40,13 @@
$default=$n;
}
+ # If this is not terse mode, we want to print out choices. Since we
+ # only have two choices, though, we use a compact display format.
+ my $description=$this->question->description;
+ if (Debconf::Config->terse eq 'false') {
+ $description.=" [$y/$n]";
+ }
+
my $value='';
while (1) {
@@ -47,7 +54,7 @@
$_=$this->frontend->prompt(
default => $default,
completions => [$y, $n],
- prompt => $this->question->description,
+ prompt => $description,
question => $this->question,
);
return unless defined $_;
diff -Nru --exclude '*.po' --exclude '*.pot'
debconf-1.5.56+deb8u1/Debconf/FrontEnd/Readline.pm
debconf-1.5.61/Debconf/FrontEnd/Readline.pm
--- debconf-1.5.56+deb8u1/Debconf/FrontEnd/Readline.pm 2017-06-16
15:22:02.000000000 -0700
+++ debconf-1.5.61/Debconf/FrontEnd/Readline.pm 2015-11-07 18:17:49.000000000
-0800
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
=item promptdefault
-Set if the varient of readline being used is so lame that it cannot display
+Set if the variant of readline being used is so lame that it cannot display
defaults, so the default must be part of the prompt instead.
=back
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@
The function uses named parameters.
-Completion amoung available choices is supported. For this to work, if
+Completion among available choices is supported. For this to work, if
a reference to an array of all possible completions is passed in.
=cut
diff -Nru --exclude '*.po' --exclude '*.pot'
debconf-1.5.56+deb8u1/Debconf/Question.pm debconf-1.5.61/Debconf/Question.pm
--- debconf-1.5.56+deb8u1/Debconf/Question.pm 2017-06-16 15:22:02.000000000
-0700
+++ debconf-1.5.61/Debconf/Question.pm 2015-07-12 10:35:14.000000000 -0700
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@
my $variable;
my $varval;
my $escape;
- while ($rest =~ m/^(.*?)(\\)?\${([^{}]+)}(.*)$/sg) {
+ while ($rest =~ m/^(.*?)(\\)?\$\{([^{}]+)\}(.*)$/sg) {
$result.=$1; # copy anything before the variable
$escape=$2;
$variable=$3;
diff -Nru --exclude '*.po' --exclude '*.pot'
debconf-1.5.56+deb8u1/Debconf/Template.pm debconf-1.5.61/Debconf/Template.pm
--- debconf-1.5.56+deb8u1/Debconf/Template.pm 2017-06-16 15:22:02.000000000
-0700
+++ debconf-1.5.61/Debconf/Template.pm 2015-07-12 17:13:40.000000000 -0700
@@ -76,10 +76,15 @@
if ($Debconf::Db::templates->exists($template) and
$Debconf::Db::templates->owners($template)) {
# If a question matching this template already exists in
- # the db, add the owner to it. This handles shared owner
- # questions.
- my $q=Debconf::Question->get($template);
- $q->addowner($owner, $type) if $q;
+ # the db, add the owner to it; otherwise, create one. This
+ # handles shared owner questions.
+ if ($Debconf::Db::config->exists($template)) {
+ my $q=Debconf::Question->get($template);
+ $q->addowner($owner, $type) if $q;
+ } else {
+ my $q=Debconf::Question->new($template, $owner, $type);
+ $q->template($template);
+ }
# See if the template claims to own any questions that
# cannot be found. If so, the db is corrupted; attempt to
diff -Nru --exclude '*.po' --exclude '*.pot'
debconf-1.5.56+deb8u1/debian/changelog debconf-1.5.61/debian/changelog
--- debconf-1.5.56+deb8u1/debian/changelog 2017-06-17 04:27:16.000000000
-0700
+++ debconf-1.5.61/debian/changelog 2017-05-21 10:08:30.000000000 -0700
@@ -1,10 +1,57 @@
-debconf (1.5.56+deb8u1) jessie; urgency=medium
+debconf (1.5.61) unstable; urgency=medium
[ Niko Tyni ]
* Use File::Temp instead of the deprecated POSIX::tmpnam() in
Debconf::TmpFile (closes: #863071).
- -- Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2017 12:27:07 +0100
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org> Sun, 21 May 2017 18:08:30 +0100
+
+debconf (1.5.60) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+ [ Christian Perrier ]
+ * French manpages translation. Thanks to Baptiste Jammet.
+ Closes: #849394
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2017 12:58:59 +0000
+
+debconf (1.5.59) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+ * Use HTTPS for Vcs-* URLs, and link to cgit rather than gitweb.
+ * Set source format to 3.0 (native).
+ * frontend: Load templates when we're being run from any maintainer
+ script, not just preinst/postinst (closes: #817083).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org> Fri, 11 Mar 2016 10:59:28 +0000
+
+debconf (1.5.58) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+ * Don't update po/debconf.pot unless doing so changes something other than
+ the POT-Creation-Date header. The basic approach here is from gettext,
+ though implemented a bit more simply since we can assume perl.
+ * Show choices for teletype/readline boolean questions (closes: #802840).
+ * Move bash completion file to /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org> Sun, 08 Nov 2015 03:27:10 +0000
+
+debconf (1.5.57) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+ [ Colin Watson ]
+ * Drop alternative Suggests on gnome-utils (closes: #792219). It hasn't
+ existed since squeeze, it dropped gdialog in 2003, and debconf only
+ supported gdialog for about three weeks in 1999 anyway.
+ * Escape braces in regexes to avoid deprecation warning with Perl 5.22
+ (closes: #786705).
+ * When creating a new template and finding that it already exists in the
+ database, ensure that a question of the same name exists too (closes:
+ #518322, #779920).
+
+ [ Jérémy Bobbio ]
+ * Use UTC when running xgettext for build reproducibility. Closes: #783255
+
+ [ Debconf translations ]
+ * Brazilian Portuguese (Adriano Rafael Gomes). Closes: #785464
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 2015 12:33:36 +0100
debconf (1.5.56) unstable; urgency=medium
@@ -2036,7 +2083,7 @@
debconf (1.4.30) unstable; urgency=low
* Fix and update German translation. Thanks, Michael Piefel. Closes: #260572
- * Update Basque templates translation. Thanks, Piarres Beobide Egaña.
+ * Update Basque templates translation. Thanks, Piarres Beobide Egaña.
Closes: #260678
-- Joey Hess <jo...@debian.org> Sat, 24 Jul 2004 02:41:35 -0400
@@ -2069,7 +2116,7 @@
debconf (1.4.26) unstable; urgency=low
- * Add Basqe translation by Piarres Beobide Egaña. Closes: #247321
+ * Add Basqe translation by Piarres Beobide Egaña. Closes: #247321
* German translation update. Closes: #251731
* Catalan translation update. Closes: #251786
* Remove soi-unsightly trailing blanks in debconf-show output.
@@ -2567,7 +2614,7 @@
debconf (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
- * Spanish translation update from Carlos Valdivia Yagüe. Closes: #196672
+ * Spanish translation update from Carlos Valdivia Yagüe. Closes: #196672
-- Joey Hess <jo...@debian.org> Mon, 9 Jun 2003 12:44:13 -0400
@@ -2937,7 +2984,7 @@
debconf (1.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
* Allow stacked dbdrivers with readonly databases on top.
- * Patch from Michel Dänzer to put the hostname in the gnome window title.
+ * Patch from Michel Dänzer to put the hostname in the gnome window title.
Closes: #141235
-- Joey Hess <jo...@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:24:55 -0400
@@ -3029,7 +3076,7 @@
* Directory DbDriver is pure virtual now; I had to move exists and iterator
out of it, and it is fairly useless by itself.
* Seems that LDAP has no end of quoting problems, and Dagfinn Ilmari
- Mannsåker sent in a patch to update more of them (changes the schema again
+ Mannsåker sent in a patch to update more of them (changes the schema again
amoung other things). Closes: #152477
* Stop leaking priority fields into the config database.
@@ -3057,7 +3104,7 @@
of this type into it, use debconf-copydb to copy your existing databases
into the new ones, and then make the new ones be used by default.
- * Applied a patch from ilm...@ping.uio.no (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker) to the
+ * Applied a patch from ilm...@ping.uio.no (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker) to the
LDAP dbdriver to change fields to IA5 text, skipping empty fields.
Closes: #139779
* Made more vocal about use of capitalized frontend names, which are
@@ -3436,7 +3483,7 @@
* Another French update.
* Danish translation by Morten Brix Pedersen <mor...@wtf.dk>
* frontend: don't glob unnecessarily, Closes: #117077
- * Michel Dänzer <daen...@debian.org> figured out how to turn off the gnome
+ * Michel Dänzer <daen...@debian.org> figured out how to turn off the gnome
session manager warnings. Closes: #116087
* Turns out that the gnome frontend ARGV stomping was not being backed out
if gtk failed to init due to a bad DISPLAY. Fixed that, which probably
@@ -3942,7 +3989,7 @@
* A typo in debconf-getlang was making it incorrectly mark some things as
fuzzy. Fumitoshi UKAI pointed out the fix, Closes: #97475
- * Some Spanish updates by Carlos Valdivia Yagüe.
+ * Some Spanish updates by Carlos Valdivia Yagüe.
-- Joey Hess <jo...@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 15:17:31 -0400
diff -Nru --exclude '*.po' --exclude '*.pot'
debconf-1.5.56+deb8u1/debian/control debconf-1.5.61/debian/control
--- debconf-1.5.56+deb8u1/debian/control 2017-06-16 15:22:14.000000000
-0700
+++ debconf-1.5.61/debian/control 2017-05-21 10:07:55.000000000 -0700
@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@
Uploaders: Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org>
Standards-Version: 3.9.5
Build-Depends-Indep: perl (>= 5.10.0-16), python (>= 2.6.6-3~), python3 (>=
3.1.2-8), gettext (>= 0.13), libintl-perl, libqtgui4-perl
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.2.11~), po-debconf, po4a (>= 0.23)
-Vcs-Git: git://anonscm.debian.org/debconf/debconf.git
-Vcs-Browser: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=debconf/debconf.git;a=summary
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 8.1.0~), po-debconf, po4a (>= 0.23)
+Vcs-Git: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/debconf/debconf.git
+Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debconf/debconf.git
X-Python-Version: >= 2.6
Package: debconf
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
Replaces: debconf-tiny
Depends: ${misc:Depends}
Recommends: apt-utils (>= 0.5.1), debconf-i18n
-Suggests: debconf-doc, debconf-utils, whiptail | dialog | gnome-utils,
libterm-readline-gnu-perl, libgtk2-perl (>= 1:1.130), libnet-ldap-perl, perl,
libqtgui4-perl, libqtcore4-perl
+Suggests: debconf-doc, debconf-utils, whiptail | dialog,
libterm-readline-gnu-perl, libgtk2-perl (>= 1:1.130), libnet-ldap-perl, perl,
libqtgui4-perl, libqtcore4-perl
Architecture: all
Multi-Arch: foreign
Description: Debian configuration management system
diff -Nru --exclude '*.po' --exclude '*.pot'
debconf-1.5.56+deb8u1/debian/debconf.dirs debconf-1.5.61/debian/debconf.dirs
--- debconf-1.5.56+deb8u1/debian/debconf.dirs 2017-06-16 15:22:02.000000000
-0700
+++ debconf-1.5.61/debian/debconf.dirs 2015-11-07 19:02:00.000000000 -0800
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
etc/apt/apt.conf.d
-etc/bash_completion.d
+usr/share/bash-completion/completions
diff -Nru --exclude '*.po' --exclude '*.pot'
debconf-1.5.56+deb8u1/debian/maintscript debconf-1.5.61/debian/maintscript
--- debconf-1.5.56+deb8u1/debian/maintscript 1969-12-31 16:00:00.000000000
-0800
+++ debconf-1.5.61/debian/maintscript 2015-11-07 19:00:35.000000000 -0800
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+rm_conffile /etc/bash_completion.d/debconf 1.5.58~
diff -Nru --exclude '*.po' --exclude '*.pot' debconf-1.5.56+deb8u1/debian/rules
debconf-1.5.61/debian/rules
--- debconf-1.5.56+deb8u1/debian/rules 2017-06-16 15:22:02.000000000 -0700
+++ debconf-1.5.61/debian/rules 2015-11-07 19:23:43.000000000 -0800
@@ -26,7 +26,10 @@
override_dh_install:
dh_install
cp debian/apt.conf debian/debconf/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf
- cp bash_completion debian/debconf/etc/bash_completion.d/debconf
+ cp bash_completion \
+ debian/debconf/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/debconf
+ ln -s debconf \
+
debian/debconf/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/debconf-show
override_dh_installchangelogs:
# Changelog reduction hack for debconf. Only include top 100 entries.
diff -Nru --exclude '*.po' --exclude '*.pot'
debconf-1.5.56+deb8u1/debian/source/format debconf-1.5.61/debian/source/format
--- debconf-1.5.56+deb8u1/debian/source/format 1969-12-31 16:00:00.000000000
-0800
+++ debconf-1.5.61/debian/source/format 2016-01-27 03:00:13.000000000 -0800
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+3.0 (native)
diff -Nru --exclude '*.po' --exclude '*.pot' debconf-1.5.56+deb8u1/frontend
debconf-1.5.61/frontend
--- debconf-1.5.56+deb8u1/frontend 2017-06-16 15:22:02.000000000 -0700
+++ debconf-1.5.61/frontend 2016-03-08 02:16:29.000000000 -0800
@@ -96,6 +96,15 @@
$frontend->default_title($package) if length $package and !$no_title;
$frontend->info(undef);
+# Load any associated templates if we're being run from a package maintainer
+# script.
+if ($ARGV[0] =~/^(.*[.\/])(?:preinst|postinst|prerm|postrm)$/) {
+ my $base=$1;
+ my $templates=$base."templates";
+ Debconf::Template->load($templates, $package)
+ if -e $templates;
+}
+
# See if the preinst or postinst of the package is being run, and if there
# is a config script associated with this package. If so, run it first as a
# confmodule (also loading the templates). This is a bit of a nasty hack, that
@@ -106,11 +115,6 @@
if ($ARGV[0] =~/^(.*[.\/])(?:postinst|preinst)$/) {
my $base=$1;
- # Load templates, if any.
- my $templates=$base."templates";
- Debconf::Template->load($templates, $package)
- if -e $templates;
-
# Run config script, if any.
my $config=$base."config";
if (-e $config) {
diff -Nru --exclude '*.po' --exclude '*.pot' debconf-1.5.56+deb8u1/po/Makefile
debconf-1.5.61/po/Makefile
--- debconf-1.5.56+deb8u1/po/Makefile 2017-06-16 15:22:02.000000000 -0700
+++ debconf-1.5.61/po/Makefile 2015-11-07 18:00:08.000000000 -0800
@@ -16,10 +16,22 @@
debconf.pot: $(POTFILES)
@echo "Rebuilding the pot file"
- xgettext $(POTFILES) -o debconf.pot -Lperl
+ TZ=UTC xgettext $(POTFILES) -o debconf.pot.new -Lperl
+ if [ -f debconf.pot ]; then \
+ ./remove-potcdate.pl < debconf.pot > debconf.1po && \
+ ./remove-potcdate.pl < debconf.pot.new > debconf.2po && \
+ if cmp debconf.1po debconf.2po >/dev/null 2>&1; then \
+ rm -f debconf.1po debconf.2po debconf.pot.new; \
+ else \
+ rm -f debconf.1po debconf.2po && \
+ mv debconf.pot.new debconf.pot; \
+ fi; \
+ else \
+ mv debconf.pot.new debconf.pot; \
+ fi
clean:
- rm -f $(MOFILES) messages messages.mo
+ rm -f $(MOFILES) debconf.pot.new messages messages.mo
%.mo: %.po
msgfmt -o $@ $<
diff -Nru --exclude '*.po' --exclude '*.pot'
debconf-1.5.56+deb8u1/po/remove-potcdate.pl debconf-1.5.61/po/remove-potcdate.pl
--- debconf-1.5.56+deb8u1/po/remove-potcdate.pl 1969-12-31 16:00:00.000000000
-0800
+++ debconf-1.5.61/po/remove-potcdate.pl 2015-11-07 17:56:58.000000000
-0800
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+#! /usr/bin/perl -n
+
+BEGIN {
+ $seen_potcdate = 0;
+}
+
+if (not $seen_potcdate and /^"POT-Creation-Date: .*"/) {
+ $seen_potcdate = 1;
+ next;
+}
+print;
