Bug#232725: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=232725

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

dickey@his.com (Thomas Dickey) schrieb:

>>                       Debian Bug report logs - #232725
>>                     missing dependency on dialog|whiptail
> ...
> The issue is that the scripts are redirecting stdout before calling dialog.
> They rely on an unintentional feature of dialog which is documented in the
> manpage:
>
>        DIALOG_TTY     Set this variable to "1" to provide  compatibility  with
>                       older  versions  of  dialog  which  assumed  that if the
>                       script redirects the standard output, that  the  "--std-
>                       out" option was given.

Thank you for the hint - actually we won't need the variable in the
future, because we simply won't call texconfig any more, but fmtutil and
texlinks directly. And these scripts don't need dialog.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie