Bug#243790: openoffice.org-bin: Debconf complains during upgrade
On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 12:59:32 +0200
Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org> wrote:
> Tim Dijkstra (tdykstra) wrote:
> > Package: openoffice.org-bin
> > Version: 1.1.1-1
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > During the last upgrade I noticed debconf was complaining:
> >
> > Uitpakken van vervangende openoffice.org-bin ...
> > debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Readline
> > debconf: (This frontend requires a controlling tty.)
> > debconf: falling back to frontend: Teletype
> >
> > I can also reproduce this with dpkg-reconfigure. It also happens
> > with openoffice.org and openoffice.org-l10n-en
>
> which do not use debconf....
That is indeed a bit weird ... But wait see below
> > I think this is not a direct bug in debconf, because it only happens
> > with packages from openoffice.org.
>
> err? you have to be more specific. We *don't* do anything with the
> Debconf frontend and just run debconf's stuff as any other package..
> (and this only in -bin)
Well I looked bit in the maintainer scripts, it seems that if I remove
the following lines from .postinst the message goes away
if [ -x /usr/share/openoffice.org${VER}-debian-files/install-hook ];
then /usr/share/openoffice.org${VER}-debian-files/install-hook
$THIS_SCRIPT $THIS_PACKAGE "$@" fi
... Looking a bit further ... If I see it correctly for the
postinst of every openoffice.org package you run all the files in
/usr/share/openoffice.org-debian-files/hooks/postinst.d
One of these files does use debconf, namely prelink. So maybe
something's going wrong there.
For the moment I don't have anymore time ...
grts Tim
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