Bug#85500: PROPOSED] please strengthen section 2.3.8.1's stance on messages in postinsts
On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 09:42:30AM -0800, Sean Perry wrote:
> The problem is here is the definition of 'vitallly important'. Numerous
> packages print information during their postinst runs. When one installs many
> packages at once, the information is lost as the next postinst prints its info.
>
> What I would like to see is text in policy stating that if a package displays
> any information it must be therefore vitally important information and thus the
> script must prompt the user.
"Starting internet superserver: inetd" doesn't seem like vitally important
information, nor something worth having a "[Press enter to continue]" for.
OTOH, it still seems worth printing, as discussed some time ago.
This seems either a wishlist bug against dpkg (to always log output of
maintainer scripts), or a bug against packages that do output vitally
important information without prompting...
Cheers,
aj
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