Re: Bug#224509: [PROPOSAL] Correct spurious promise regarding TTY availability
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 16:45:06 +0100, Tore Anderson <tore@linpro.no> said:
> 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 - which makes all scripts that
> make explicit use of /dev/tty (as policy recommends) fail with the
> error message '/dev/tty: No such device or address'.
The current practice is that maintainer scripts may depend on
a controlling tty. Sure, dpkg can be run without a controlling tty,
in which case things shall break. "Don't do that, then".
This can't just be simply changed without a trong reason to do
so, and without a plan on how the transition is to be affected.
manoj
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