On Sat, 2009-08-08 at 12:51:33 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Julien Cristau <[email protected]> writes: > > what does this change mean for essential packages that want to prompt > > the user when debconf isn't available? E.g. libc6.postinst tries to use > > debconf, and if that's not available and $DEBIAN_FRONTEND != > > noninteractive it prompts the user and reads stdin. I guess it's > > reasonable to expect dpkg frontends that don't provide a tty to set > > DEBIAN_FRONTEND, but maybe that should be spelled out? > > It should be if that's something that packages can rely on. Does dpkg > always set that if the session is not interactive?
dpkg never sets that variable. regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
