On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 04:45:06PM +0100, Tore Anderson wrote: > 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 [...]
That's not strictly true. Dpkg calls maintainer scripts, and maintainer scripts may assume that there is a controlling terminal, so technically, dpkg needs a controlling terminal to hand off to these scripts. -- Chris Waters | Pneumonoultra- osis is too long [EMAIL PROTECTED] | microscopicsilico- to fit into a single or [EMAIL PROTECTED] | volcaniconi- standalone haiku
