Op vr 19-12-2003, om 16:45 schreef Tore Anderson: > Package: debian-policy > Severity: wishlist > > Current policy says a controlling terminal is guaranteed to be > available in the maintainer scripts. This is simply not true, for > dpkg will happily run without one - which makes all scripts that > make explicit use of /dev/tty (as policy recommends) fail with > the error message '/dev/tty: No such device or address'. > > The following patch should correct policy so it documents current > practise instead of making incorrect guarantees:
If this change is accepted, policy should also document that any frontend to the package manager should ensure it sets up a controlling tty for the dpkg run, unless the frontend itself is started noninteractively. That said, I don't think it's a good idea to do this. Many packages depend on having a controlling tty available, and aren't buggy since current policy allows it. Changing that would make all those packages instantly buggy, which should be avoided if at all possible (and it most certainly is possible) -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org Nederlandstalige Linux-documentatie -- http://nl.linux.org Most people have two reasons for doing anything -- a good reason, and the real reason
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