Bug#224509: [PROPOSAL] Correct spurious promise regarding TTY availability

2003-12-19 Thread Tore Anderson
* Tore Anderson >> 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 [...] * Chris Waters > That's not strictly true. Dpkg calls maintainer

Bug#224509: [PROPOSAL] Correct spurious promise regarding TTY availability

2003-12-19 Thread Tore Anderson
thing worth noting is that the by far most popular method for prompting users, debconf, already does the requred checking. -- Tore Anderson

Bug#224509: [PROPOSAL] Correct spurious promise regarding TTY availability

2003-12-19 Thread Tore Anderson
might run with a controlling + terminal and can in that case interact with the user. See . -- Tore Anderson