Bug#648847: update-inetd: Non-interactive mode

2011-11-27 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
Hi again Philippe, Thanks for clarifying. I'd be happy to apply a patch, but I'm uncertain whether the issue warrants a stable-release update (which is probably what you need), and I would rather focus on update-inetd's replacement than prepare/test the patch myself. cheers, sez -- To UNSUBSC

Bug#648847: update-inetd: Non-interactive mode

2011-11-23 Thread Basinska Philippe
Le 22.11.2011 23:46, Serafeim Zanikolas a écrit : Hi Philippe, I sympathise with the aim, but debconf is needed in pretty much all invocation modes. That's because the user is prompted to make a choice when a service selector matches more than one entry (which is terrible; check out DEP9 for a

Bug#648847: update-inetd: Non-interactive mode

2011-11-23 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
Hi Philippe, On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 04:41:26PM +0100, Philippe Basinska wrote [edited]: > update-inetd should allow a non-interactive mode to avoid the use of > debconf. [..] > I looked at update-inetd code source and, in my opinion, DebianNet.pm > should load debconf code only if needed (if --mu

Bug#648847: update-inetd: Non-interactive mode

2011-11-15 Thread Philippe Basinska
Package: update-inetd Version: 4.38+nmu1+squeeze1 Severity: wishlist Hello, update-inetd should allow a non-interactive mode to avoid the use of debconf. Indeed, I get the following warning when I use update-inetd in a script executed under udev responsability : debconf: unable to initialize fr