Bug#224509: [PROPOSAL] Correct spurious promise regarding TTY availability
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 04:45:06PM +0100, Tore Anderson wrote:
> Current policy says a controlling terminal is guaranteed to be
> available in the maintainer scripts. This is simply not true, for
> dpkg will happily run without one [...]
That's not strictly true. Dpkg calls maintainer scripts, and
maintainer scripts may assume that there is a controlling terminal, so
technically, dpkg needs a controlling terminal to hand off to these
scripts.
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