Bug#224509: Don't require a TTY during maintainer script execution
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 19:43:29 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> I think at this point, now that debconf is mandatory for all but essential
> packages, removing the guarantee of a controlling terminal is
> uncontroversial. This bug has been open for a while and I'd like to put
> it to bed. Here's proposed wording. I'm looking for feedback or seconds.
>
Hi Russ,
what does this change mean for essential packages that want to prompt
the user when debconf isn't available? E.g. libc6.postinst tries to use
debconf, and if that's not available and $DEBIAN_FRONTEND !=
noninteractive it prompts the user and reads stdin.
I guess it's reasonable to expect dpkg frontends that don't provide a
tty to set DEBIAN_FRONTEND, but maybe that should be spelled out?
Cheers,
Julien
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