Re: Removing dpkg conffile backgrounding prompt support

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

Hi!

On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 04:49:06 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote:
> I'd like to know if people would strongly miss being able to
> background dpkg on the conffile prompt (‘Z’), instead of starting a
> new subshell. The latter is the default with most modern frontends
> (APT based).
> 
> I personally find the background support annoying and confusing when
> one is used to expect a subshell. It would also allow to properly fix
> bug 60329, which I think would be nice.
> 
> Otherwise I'd like to remove it in the near future.

Ok I've done so now with:

  <http://git.debian.org/?p=dpkg/dpkg.git;a=commit;h=6f037003>

and

  <http://git.debian.org/?p=dpkg/dpkg.git;a=commit;h=4da6f227>

Also once #486222 is fixed (next apt upload it seems), then it will be
possible to always Ctrl-Z on the prompt achieving the same result, so
no functionality lost after all!

regards,
guillem