* Wouter Verhelst > 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)
These packages are already de facto buggy. I can't imagine that it would matter to a user whether or no the failure resulted from a spurious promise from policy or a slack maintainer -- the maintainer script will fail, and that's all that matters. There is however no doubt that this proposal will make a number of packages instantly de jure buggy. That said, do note that it will only be a "should" policy violation, so it will not justify any bugs of release-critical severity. Another thing worth noting is that the by far most popular method for prompting users, debconf, already does the requred checking. -- Tore Anderson
