Bug#628996: apt-listbugs: please use debconf [was: Bug#628996: Bug#671726: Bug#671728: Bug#671726: apt: should be able to provide hook information through a named pipe]

2013-03-20 Thread Francesco Poli
On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 21:03:28 +0100 Serafeim Zanikolas wrote: [...] I think technical minded users would appreciate the same level of options currently provided by apt-get ran as root, ie. to be able to upgrade selected RC-buggy packages while pinning others. To me, it is of paramount

Bug#628996: apt-listbugs: please use debconf [was: Bug#628996: Bug#671726: Bug#671728: Bug#671726: apt: should be able to provide hook information through a named pipe]

2013-03-19 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 19 March 2013 07:07, Francesco Poli invernom...@paranoici.org wrote: On Sun, 17 Mar 2013 17:34:03 +0800 Daniel Hartwig wrote: What follows is a somewhat verbose justification and answer to some of your previous questions. Responses should go to #628996 only, please. Excluding your address

Bug#628996: apt-listbugs: please use debconf [was: Bug#628996: Bug#671726: Bug#671728: Bug#671726: apt: should be able to provide hook information through a named pipe]

2013-03-19 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
Hi guys, On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 12:07:20AM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: On Sun, 17 Mar 2013 17:34:03 +0800 Daniel Hartwig wrote: [...] On 17 March 2013 16:17, Francesco Poli invernom...@paranoici.org wrote: [..] ยท -n, --force-no Assumes that you select no for all questions. This

Bug#628996: Bug#671726: Bug#671728: Bug#671726: apt: should be able to provide hook information through a named pipe

2013-03-18 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
Hi Daniel, On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 05:34:03PM +0800, Daniel Hartwig wrote: Control: reopen 628996 Control: retitle 628996 apt-listbugs: please use debconf #Control: tags 628996 - moreinfo On 17 March 2013 16:17, Francesco Poli invernom...@paranoici.org wrote: On Sun, 17 Mar 2013 10:41:52

Bug#628996: Bug#671726: Bug#671728: Bug#671726: apt: should be able to provide hook information through a named pipe

2013-03-18 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 18 March 2013 18:56, Serafeim Zanikolas s...@debian.org wrote: No doubt the current behaviour of noop is not doing apt-listbugs justice. I agree that debconf is generally the best way to handle a situation where terminal interaction may or may not be possible. But as far as I understand,

Bug#628996: apt-listbugs: please use debconf [was: Bug#628996: Bug#671726: Bug#671728: Bug#671726: apt: should be able to provide hook information through a named pipe]

2013-03-18 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sun, 17 Mar 2013 17:34:03 +0800 Daniel Hartwig wrote: [...] On 17 March 2013 16:17, Francesco Poli invernom...@paranoici.org wrote: On Sun, 17 Mar 2013 10:41:52 +0800 Daniel Hartwig wrote: [...] Debconf may provide a suitable interface there Please see the bug log of #628996 for

Bug#671726: Bug#671728: Bug#671726: apt: should be able to provide hook information through a named pipe

2013-03-17 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sun, 17 Mar 2013 10:41:52 +0800 Daniel Hartwig wrote: [...] Debconf may provide a suitable interface there Please see the bug log of #628996 for more details about a possible Debconf frontend and the related difficulties... -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/frx-gpg-key-transition-2010.txt

Bug#628996: Bug#671726: Bug#671728: Bug#671726: apt: should be able to provide hook information through a named pipe

2013-03-17 Thread Daniel Hartwig
Control: reopen 628996 Control: retitle 628996 apt-listbugs: please use debconf #Control: tags 628996 - moreinfo On 17 March 2013 16:17, Francesco Poli invernom...@paranoici.org wrote: On Sun, 17 Mar 2013 10:41:52 +0800 Daniel Hartwig wrote: [...] Debconf may provide a suitable interface

Bug#671726: Bug#671728: Bug#671726: apt: should be able to provide hook information through a named pipe

2013-03-17 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 12:36:22AM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: On Sun, 17 Mar 2013 00:07:21 +0100 Serafeim Zanikolas wrote: Do you agree then that adding the fifo feature to apt and adapting apt-listbugs accordingly is not needed nor does it suffice for fixing #662983? No, I don't

Bug#671726: Bug#671728: Bug#671726: apt: should be able to provide hook information through a named pipe

2013-03-16 Thread Francesco Poli
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

Bug#671726: Bug#671728: Bug#671726: apt: should be able to provide hook information through a named pipe

2013-03-16 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 11:25:18PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: 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

Bug#671726: Bug#671728: Bug#671726: apt: should be able to provide hook information through a named pipe

2013-03-16 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sun, 17 Mar 2013 00:07:21 +0100 Serafeim Zanikolas wrote: On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 11:25:18PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: 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