On Tue, 2021-09-21 at 23:47 +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: [...] > In the meantime another issue that would need to be fixed in sid > > > came > as > bug#994042. > > This time the issue is in the preinst. To summarize, in the case > debconf is not usable to prompt the user about the upgrade, the > preinst switches to text prompt. However as the debconf module has > been loaded got control of the tty, which prevent any input from the > user. For skilled users it still possible to kill the upgrade from > another, but other users will probably try other actions that might > have damaging effects (like rebooting the system). > > The fix is to get the debconf configuration without using the debconf > module, as suggested by Colin Watson. >
Thanks. That looks OK to me, particularly with Colin's review. Is there an ETA for getting the fix into unstable? Regards, Adam
