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.
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Brian May <bam@debian.org>
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