severity 330445 serious thanks > The fact that kernel-package does not have these image > packages use debconf is a bug (a normal bug, so far), and I am thus > merging this report with the other "use debconf" reports.
http://release.debian.org/etch_rc_policy.txt Point 4, Autobuilding. This bug is causing the di kernel images to FTBFS. > This is not really a serious bug: > ,----[ Policy document ] > | 6.3. Controlling terminal for maintainer scripts > | ------------------------------------------------ > | > | 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', since `dpkg' will at some > | point redirect scripts' standard input and output so that it can log > | the installation process. Likewise, because these scripts may be > | executed with standard output redirected into a pipe for logging > | purposes, Perl scripts should set unbuffered output by setting `$|=1' > | so that the output is printed immediately rather than being buffered. > `---- I'd say that policy is out of date with current practices, and release team policies.
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