Package: quik
Version: 2.1-9
Severity: serious
Tags: d-i
Justification: Policy 3.9.1, breaks debian-installer

Currently when a user does an installation using debian-installer on a 
PowerPC OldWorld machine, the installation will hang during the 
installation of quik.
Reason is that quik prompts on stdout and the user has no way to 
respond to that prompt.

Policy 3.9.1 says:
| Prompting should be done by communicating through a program, such as
| debconf, which conforms to the Debian Configuration management
| specification, version 2 or higher. Prompting the user by other means,
| such as by hand[8], is now deprecated.

Please change to using debconf for the prompt to avoid breaking installs,
or at least do not prompt the user if debconf is in use. The later 
solution is implemented in the patch below.

diff -u quik-2.1/debian/postinst quik-2.1/debian/postinst
--- quik-2.1/debian/postinst
+++ quik-2.1/debian/postinst
@@ -56,8 +56,7 @@
 fi
 
 if
-       [ "$1" = "configure" ] && [ "$DEBIAN_FRONTEND" != noninteractive ] \
-       && [ "$DEBIAN_FRONTEND" != Noninteractive ]; then
+       [ "$1" = "configure" ] && [ -z "$DEBIAN_FRONTEND" ]; then
        echo "running /usr/sbin/quikconfig"
        echo 
        /usr/sbin/quikconfig || \

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-powerpc
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages quik depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.7-16     GNU C Library: Shared libraries

quik recommends no packages.

quik suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information



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