Package: cvs Version: 1:1.12.9-11 Severity: important Whenever upgrading CVS from a script which has no controlling terminal the postinst script of cvs always fails. This is easily reproduced by using at to run "apt-get --re-install install cvs" which fails:
Preparing to replace cvs 1:1.12.9-11 (using .../c/cvs/cvs_1.12.9-11_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement cvs ... Setting up cvs (1.12.9-11) ... debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog debconf: (TERM is not set, so the dialog frontend is not usable.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Readline debconf: (This frontend requires a controlling tty.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Teletype Couldn't reopen stdin at /usr/sbin/update-inetd line 29. dpkg: error processing cvs (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 6 Errors were encountered while processing: cvs E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Running the same command from an interactive terminal works with no problems. I consider this bug important as it breaks automatic installation of security updates via cron scripts whenever cvs is updated as it stops the configure stage of other packages from running without some manual intervention. Regards Jon PS: this bug exists in the version in woody as well where I first ran into this problem. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages cvs depends on: ii debconf 1.4.30.11 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libpam-runtime 0.76-22 Runtime support for the PAM librar ii libpam0g 0.76-22 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-3 compression library - runtime -- debconf information: cvs/pserver_repos_individual: true cvs/pserver_setspawnlimit: false cvs/rotatekeep: 7 * cvs/badrepositories: ignore cvs/pserver_warning: cvs/rotatekeep_individual: 7 cvs/pserver_repos: all * cvs/pserver: false cvs/cvs_conf_is_dead: * cvs/repositories: /var/lib/cvs cvs/rotatekeep_nondefault: no cvs/rotate_individual: true cvs/pserver_spawnlimit: 400 cvs/rotatehistory: no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
