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Re: DEBIAN_FRONTEND env.var case sensitivity



Previously Jochen Voss wrote:
> I ask because some NMU introduced a line like
> 
>         if [ "$DEBIAN_FRONTEND" != "Noninteractive" ] \
> 
> into fdutil's postinst.  Should this be changed then?

Yes.

> I guess the above line fixed a problem, so a simple
> "$DEBIAN_FRONTEND" != "noninteractive" would break things
> again.  Maybe I should check for both versions?

No, this is a bug in FAI which set the environment to Noninteractive
incorrectly. Both fdutils (and libc6, and a few others) and FAI
should be fixed to use all lowercase.

Wichert.

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