I have been studying both apt-cdrom and d-i to understand the behavior. Here are the problems that I see. I will be happy to implement/fix these issues if we agree on the correct behavior.
1. According to the man page the purpose of APT::CDROM::NoMount is to "prevent apt-cdrom from mounting and unmounting the mount point". So in my opinion, if this option is enabled, apt-cdrom should *never* mount or unmount. (That was not true for "ident" until now.) 2. When "add" mounts a CD, it sometimes unmounts it and sometimes not, depending on which exit path is taken. This seems quite bizarre and should be made consistent. In my opinion it should be a simple rule: "add" always unmounts the CD when it is done. 3. The man page for "ident" is not clear about what is supposed to happen. The previous behavior was to mount it (regardless of APT::CDROM::NoMount) and then maybe unmount it. In my opinion it should behave like "add" should. If APT::CDROM::NoMount is enabled, there is no mounting/unmounting. If it is not enabled, it would unmount any mounted CD and ask the user to insert a new CD before mounting it and proceeding. By redirecting stdin to /dev/null the user-feedback step would be skipped (just like "add"). Implementing these changes is straight forward. However, they would also require a change to d-i to redirect stdin to /dev/null for "ident" to avoid user-feedback (just as d-i already does for "add"). May I submit patches for apt and d-i to implement these changes? John Ogness -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
