Bug#176483: checks for "noninteractive" (lower case) in postinst

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

reassign 176483 exim,libc6
thanks

On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 09:23:14AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 03:38:37PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> > I've grepped for "noninteractive" on my system.
> > 
> > 
> > see man-db for a better examble.
> > 
> > if [ $build_db -eq 1 ]; then
> >     frontend=`echo "$DEBIAN_FRONTEND" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'`
> >     if [ "$frontend" = noninteractive ]; then
> >         # Run in the foreground. In this case, chances are we're being run
> 
> In man-db, that code's there to tolerate the version of debootstrap in
> woody (before you fixed #154794). The documented name for the frontend
> is all lower case "noninteractive", so that compatibility code will be
> removed from man-db. I don't see why the four packages above should get
> this extra compatibility code for sarge; it will no longer do any good.

I never got a response to this, so I'm reassigning away from
base-passwd. Please explain why you think base-passwd needs to tolerate
non-lower-case $DEBIAN_FRONTEND for sarge if you disagree; otherwise I'd
prefer to keep the postinst as minimal as possible.

Thanks,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]