Re: ucf was run from a maintainer script that uses debconf...
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 01:09:38AM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote:
> > On Samstag, 23. Januar 2010, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
> > > *** WARNING: ucf was run from a maintainer script that uses debconf,
> > > but the script did not pass --debconf-ok to ucf. The maintainer script
> > > should be fixed to not stop debconf before calling ucf, and pass it this
> > > parameter. For now, ucf will revert to using old-style, non-debconf
> > > prompting. Ugh!
>
> > So using ucf wronly results in seriously buggy behaviour (not using debconf
> > for user prompting)? I think this is also a serious bug in ucf, besides being
> > a normal bug in the package using ucf.
>
> > Or am I missing something?
>
> It's not a bug in 'cat' that you can invoke it from a maintainer script in a
> way that violates the policy on user interaction.
Unless it is a particular version of "cat" that knows when it is invoked by
a maintainer script, and on top of that, knows when it is invoked in a wrong
way that would force it to violate Debian policy...
The real question is: which causes the least amount of long-term damage: try
to recover, or abort with extreme prejudice to force whatever is misusing
ucf to be fixed ASAP?
I don't claim to have an answer to that question, btw.
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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