Package: apt-listchanges Version: 2.85.7 Severity: wishlist It would be nice, especially for things like puppet, to make apt-listchanges fallback to a non-interactive frontend when needed (maybe by adding a non-interactive_frontend configuration setting).
If apt-listchanges is configured to use pager, but you do a package install via puppet, then puppet can get hung waiting for the pager. Recent versions of puppet hacked around this by disabling any apt-listchanges output at all, which is the wrong way to go about it and I think could be fixed if apt-listchanges fell back to a non-interactive front-end when it wasn't appropriate. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages apt-listchanges depends on: ii apt 0.8.10 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.37 Debian configuration management sy ii debianutils 3.4.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii python 2.6.6-3+squeeze4 interactive high-level object-orie ii python-apt 0.7.100.1 Python interface to libapt-pkg ii python-support 1.0.11 automated rebuilding support for P ii ucf 3.0025+nmu1 Update Configuration File: preserv Versions of packages apt-listchanges recommends: ii postfix [mail-transport-agent 2.7.1-1 High-performance mail transport ag Versions of packages apt-listchanges suggests: ii chromium-browser [w 6.0.472.63~r59945-4 Chromium browser ii conkeror [www-brows 0.9.2+git100804-1 keyboard focused web browser with ii elinks [www-browser 0.12~pre5-2 advanced text-mode WWW browser ii epiphany-browser [w 2.30.6-1 Intuitive GNOME web browser ii galeon [www-browser 2.0.7-2.1+b1 GNOME web browser for advanced use ii gnome-terminal [x-t 2.30.2-1 The GNOME terminal emulator applic ii iceape-browser [www 2.0.11-2 Iceape Navigator (Internet browser ii iceweasel [www-brow 3.5.16-4 Web browser based on Firefox ii lynx-cur [www-brows 2.8.8dev.7-1 Text-mode WWW Browser with NLS sup ii python-glade2 2.17.0-4 GTK+ bindings: Glade support ii python-gtk2 2.17.0-4 Python bindings for the GTK+ widge ii rxvt-unicode [x-ter 9.09-3 RXVT-like terminal emulator with U ii tilda [x-terminal-e 0.09.6-2 terminal emulator with first perso ii uzbl [www-browser] 0.0.0~git.20100403-3 Lightweight Webkit browser followi ii w3m [www-browser] 0.5.2-10 WWW browsable pager with excellent ii xfce4-terminal [x-t 0.4.5-1 Xfce terminal emulator ii xterm [x-terminal-e 266-1 X terminal emulator -- debconf information: apt-listchanges/confirm: false apt-listchanges/email-address: root apt-listchanges/which: news apt-listchanges/frontend: pager apt-listchanges/save-seen: true -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
