Package: debian-policy Version: 3.6.2.1 Severity: normal [this is an edited resent of my previous mail, no new information was harm^Wused in the production]
Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Some packages still don't use debconf for prompting, and > instead do silly stuff that assumed it is OK to read and > write /dev/tty. Actually, the policy explicitly allows this: | The maintainer scripts are guaranteed to run with a controlling terminal | and can interact with the user. If they need to prompt for passwords, do | full-screen interaction or something similar you should do these things | to and from /dev/tty, [...] [Debian Policy 3.6.2.1, section 6.3] This should probably changed a bit to reference 3.10.1, which says that all means to prompt the user besides debconf are deprecated. Marc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
