tag 480560 pending thanks On Monday 12 May 2008, Joey Hess wrote: > Frans Pop wrote: > > As it is smallyes only echos an endless stream of newlines... > > That's what it's intended to do when run with ''. Which means that it assumes questions that are asked have a sane default. > > I ran an install with a 'return 0' at the top of smallyes, and that > > completed successfully, so it seems that probably we can just remove > > the use of smallyes, at least from the "sid" script. > > If it's removed, any package that manually prompts for input can cause > debootstrap to hang. As those would arguably be packaging bugs, it might be better to have them just happen and solve them than to have such a generic and somewhat heavyhanded "solution". > This patch should avoid the error message from echo and work fine. Agreed that this should solve the errors and as I don't really feel very strongly about the above I've committed your patch (not sure why you did not do so yourself). Cheers, FJP
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