On Sat, 16 Mar 2013 16:04:38 +0100 Serafeim Zanikolas wrote: [...] > I'm not sure any more that using a fifo instead of stdin is > needed for a "programmatic" frontend. After all, the tracebacks in #662983 > suggest that the failure occurs only when apt-listbugs tries to access > /dev/tty, at which point it has already parsed the apt hook data from stdin. It seems to me that you are right: if I recall correctly, the failure indeed happens after the hook info parsing step. Anyway, implementing a new alternative frontend is an even more radical modification for apt-listbugs. Let's not forget that here we were only talking about fixing #671726 and #671728 (in order to fix #662983 in a better way)... -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/frx-gpg-key-transition-2010.txt New GnuPG key, see the transition document! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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