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Re: Should debian policy require to use debconf for postinst scripts?



>>>>> "Anthony" == Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> writes:

    Anthony> Consider, eg, #90676.

What is the problem here?

If a program tries to read an input from STDIN, then IMHO it is not
debconf compliant, as you will still have problems with automatic
installations.

This is just one bug I have seen with packages that use debconf.
Another one is packages that insist on asking the questions twice:
once after apt has downloaded the package and once for after the
package has been unpacked. Sometime I probably should test some
suspect packages for this problem and file bug reports.
-- 
Brian May <bam@debian.org>



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