On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 05:50:31AM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote: > At Sat, 1 Feb 2003 17:36:25 +0000, > Colin Watson wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 09:23:14AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > > In man-db, that code's there to tolerate the version of debootstrap in > > > woody (before you fixed #154794). The documented name for the frontend > > > is all lower case "noninteractive", so that compatibility code will be > > > removed from man-db. I don't see why the four packages above should get > > > this extra compatibility code for sarge; it will no longer do any good. > > > > I never got a response to this, so I'm reassigning away from > > base-passwd. Please explain why you think base-passwd needs to tolerate > > non-lower-case $DEBIAN_FRONTEND for sarge if you disagree; otherwise I'd > > prefer to keep the postinst as minimal as possible. > > Hmm, I already included this change into the glibc 2.3.1-10. > > frontend=`echo "$DEBIAN_FRONTEND" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'` > if [ "$frontend" = noninteractive ]; then > echo "Non-interactive mode, restarting services" > answer=yes > else > > I think removing glibc is ok, aren't you?
It's not actually wrong, so I don't particularly care whether other packages implement the workaround for woody's debootstrap now or not. :) Cheers, -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
