Bug#17620: PROPOSED] Package build process must be non-interactive

[David Frey <david@eos.lugs.ch>]

On Fri, Oct 30, 1998 at 02:14:06AM +0000, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>     Currently, the packaging manual only says that the `build' target of
>     debian/rules has to be non-interactive. Since an interactive
>     debian/rules script makes it impossible to autocompile that package
>     and also makes it hard for other people to reproduce the same binary
>     package, the packaging manual should be changed to require that all
>     _required targets_ have to be non-interactive. The required targets
>     are those called by _dpkg-buildpackage_, for one. (Additional
>     debian/rules targets may be interactive.) 
Seconded. 

David