On Mon, 10 Mar 2025 12:03:54 +0000 Colin Watson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 09, 2025 at 09:39:29PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > >I'm not clear why you're removing the `-t STDIN` check from the Readline > >frontend, though; shouldn't *both* of those require a terminal? It > >sounds like your tests show it falling all the way back to > >Noninteractive, but what causes it to skip using Readline? > > Readline inherits from Teletype (see the `use base` near the top of > Debconf::FrontEnd::Readline), so checking in the parent class is > enough.
Ah, so it does! I missed that. Thanks. > Thanks for checking. I'll get this into unstable today. Thank you very much! I'm really looking forward to debconf Just Working without having to add `DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive`. And thank you for proposing and implementing the better solution that makes the less conservative assumption about people's workflows around automating debconf.
