On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 19:43:29 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > I think at this point, now that debconf is mandatory for all but essential > packages, removing the guarantee of a controlling terminal is > uncontroversial. This bug has been open for a while and I'd like to put > it to bed. Here's proposed wording. I'm looking for feedback or seconds. > Hi Russ,
what does this change mean for essential packages that want to prompt the user when debconf isn't available? E.g. libc6.postinst tries to use debconf, and if that's not available and $DEBIAN_FRONTEND != noninteractive it prompts the user and reads stdin. I guess it's reasonable to expect dpkg frontends that don't provide a tty to set DEBIAN_FRONTEND, but maybe that should be spelled out? Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
