Bug#1496: dpkg returns to dselect on SIGSTOP

[Bruce Perens <bruce@Pixar.com>]

imurdock@debian.org said:
> Were you doing this in the dselect automatically started after
> installing the base system?  In this case, dselect is started from a
> shell script (namely, /root/.bash_profile).  Could this be the
> problem?

Does dpkg attempt to suspend itself rather than fork off a shell? That would
certainly break in this case. Probably we need a flag to dpkg/dselect to
change this behavior.

	Bruce

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