Holger Levsen <hol...@layer-acht.org> writes: > On Freitag, 18. Juni 2010, Russ Allbery wrote:
>>> I think policy is unclear here: this part of policy was added per >>> #224509, while there is #506898 (which is unfortuantly merged with >>> 224509, as I read it should conflict with #506898), which says that >>> this part of policy contradicts with ยง3.9.1 intruduced via #206684, >>> which makes use of debconf mandatory. >> I don't see what's unclear or why you think these bugs should not be >> merged. Could you add more explanation? > #506898, which is merged with #224509, basically says that #224509 > should not be in policy, because it contradicts the change introduced by > fixing #206684. I'm still not seeing why you think that #506898 says that #224509 should not be in Policy. Both of those bugs say the same thing: packages cannot rely on a controlling terminal and Policy should not say that they do. Maybe the missing piece is that the behavior of debconf changes based on whether or not there is a controlling terminal, so packages still need to care about whether or not there is a controlling terminal in some cases even when they're using debconf? The wording of the report in #506898 is misleading in that respect, but all the discussion happened on #224509 so no one replied on that bug. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
