[Bug 16508] do_initrd message fails in noninteractive install

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------- Additional Comments From debzilla at ubuntu.com  2005-09-28 06:32 UTC -------
Message-ID: <87slvpokt8.fsf at glaurung.internal.golden-gryphon.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 23:52:51 -0500
From: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta at debian.org (va, manoj)>
To: Ryan Murray <rmurray at debian.org>
Cc: 330445 at bugs.debian.org, control at bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#330445: do_initrd message fails in noninteractive install

severity 330445 normal
merge 330445 115884
thanks

Hi,

        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.
`----

        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.

        manoj
-- 
Pohl's law: Nothing is so good that somebody, somewhere, will not hate
it.
Manoj Srivastava   <srivasta at debian.org>  <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
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