Bug#224509: Don't require a TTY during maintainer script execution
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 07:43:29PM -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.
Should it be spelled out here that in the case of questions that don't have
a reasonable default answer (priority high or higher), an acceptable action
for the maintainer script to take when running non-interactively is to
abort?
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