Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Policy merely states that you must needs use a debconf like > mechanism to talk to the user -- something that follows the policy > spec. That does not imply that debconf has sole rights -- one could > well have an alternate mechanism to talk to the user, which is policy > compliant, and not debconf. > > Hence, stealing away stdin is a bug. No, policy specifies that scripts should prompt by communicating with a program such as debconf which implements the Debian Configuration management specification. That specification, as I pointed out before, requires that said communication be done using stdio. Debconf does not "steal" anything. If you choose to use it, you communicate with it using stdio. -- see shy jo
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