On 2021-03-20 12:48, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Mar 20, 2021 at 12:26:05PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > On 2021-03-20 10:25, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > > By the way, I have noticed that their is support for the Xdialog > > > frontend, but it seems that in practice no package is providing this > > > binary. > > > > Please note that this is already implemented in cdebconf. If whiptail > > installed but not usable, it fallbacks to readline. > > I rather doubt that, since cdebconf doesn't use whiptail - it has its > own in-process newt frontend.
Yep, you are correct. What I wanted to say is that if the cdebconf frontend can't be executed, for example due to a symbol missing in libslang2, cdebconf is able to fallback to the readline frontend instead of exiting with an error. > The suggestion to test with --version seems reasonable, though. I'll > look into that. Thanks. Aurelien -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net
