Bug#671726: apt: should be able to provide hook information through a named pipe

[Daniel Hartwig <mandyke@gmail.com>]

On 16 March 2013 22:07, Serafeim Zanikolas <sez@debian.org> wrote:
> This new apt feature opens the way for #671728, but really fixing the latter
> would also require a non-interactive apt-listbugs frontend (to be used for
> programmatic invocation).

Right.  Apt-listbugs is effectively called in the same context as
maintainer scripts, and those are not guaranteed to have an
interactive shell.  The program must be smart enough to detect this
and do the right thing (I'm not sure if it already does :-).

This is all regardless of the aptitude–su–login issue that prompted
this bug report IIRC.